Chapter 23

Social and Rural--No Scandals--Hawthorne's Visit--Alexander Smith's--Jerdan's Haycock--Otto Goldschmidt and Macdougall--Dark Visitors--Liberian Gold Medal--Noviomagians--Lucky Angling--Albury Waltz--Rustic Stupidity--Redmen--The Drinking Fountain--Our House a Hive of Bees--Foxhunt in Drawing-room--The Donkey Burglar--Anthony Devis--Irvingism 245-256