Memoirs of a Surrey Labourer a Record of the Last Years of Frederick Betteswor
Memoirs of a Surrey Labourer a Record of the Last Years of Frederick Betteswor
George Bourne
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Bettesworth could not remember anything like this year 1903 for rain. But there ! he supposed we should get some fine weather again " some when ?" Now, I had just been reading some history, and 152 MEMOIRS OF A SURREY LABOURER was able to answer with some confidence, " Oh yes. There have been wet years before this. " And I mentioned the year after the Battle of Waterloo. Then Bettesworth, " Let's see. Battle of Water- loo ? That was in '47, wa'n't it ?" I chanced to be able to give him the corr...ect date, which he accepted easily, as if he had known all the time. " Oh ah, " he said. " But there was some- thing in eighteen hunderd and forty-seven — some great affair or other ? . . . I dunno what 'twas, though, now. . . . Forty-seven ? H'm !" What could it have been ? No, not the Mutiny. " That come after the Crimea. 'Twa'n't that. But there was something, 1 know. " 1 could not imagine what it could have been ; but Bettesworth still pondered, and at last an idea struck him. " June, '47.
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