ABSTRACT
On the following evening, when my spiritual visitor entered the room, that volume of Dr. Wordsworth’s Ecclesiastical Biography, which contains his life, was lying on the table beside me. 81 ‘I perceive’, said he, glancing at the book, ‘you have been gathering all you can concerning me from my good gossiping chronicler, 82 who tells you that I loved milk and fruit and eggs, preferred beef to young meats, and brown bread to white; was fond of seeing strange birds and beasts, and kept an ape, a fox, a weasel, and a ferret’. [Illustration IX.]
