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& if I read them again I shall owe it to
your - if I may respectfully say so - heavenly book.

And now at the end of this screed I want
to ask you a question. You speak (p. 332)
of Scott when at Avernus murmuring

Up the craggy mountain

And down the mossy glen

We dawna gang a-milking

For Charlie & his men.

Where do those lines come from? and did (I presume so)
Allingham take from them

Up the airy mountain

And down the rushy glen

We daren't go a hunting

For fear of little men.

I expect this is a grossly ignorant literary question
but I don't care - I want to know & shd.
esteem a post card, if you have time.

Yours sincerely

Bernard Darwin