Chapter 31

_Note 1. Author’s note_.--“He had a sort of horror of violence, and of the strangeness that it should be done to him; this affected him more than the blow.”

_Note 2. Author’s note_.--“Jokes occasionally about the schoolmaster’s thinness and lightness,--how he might suspend himself from the spider’s web and swing, etc.”

_Note 3. Author’s note_.--“The Doctor and the Schoolmaster should have much talk about England.”

_Note 4. Author’s note_.--“The children were at play in the churchyard.”

_Note 5. Author’s note_.--“He mentions that he was probably buried in the churchyard there.”