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Murray's Handbook of Warwickshire. Lee's Stratford-on-Avon, from the Earliest Times to the Death of Shakespeare. Brassington's Shakespeare's Homeland. Rawnsley's Literary Associations of the English Lakes. Knight's Through the Wordsworth Country. Bradley's Highways and Byways in the English Lakes. Ward's The Canterbury Pilgrimage. Harper's The Hardy Country. Snell's The Blackmore Country.
"Everything was done, but it was no use. She died in a year in a 'sylum." "How do you know that?" "How do I know that?" he repeated in a tone of contempt. "How do I know that? Well, I'll tell you how. My old wife was in service at Brassington's station at the time the oldest servant an' young Brassington wired to her from Sydney to come and help him in his trouble.
He opened a flask of whisky and passed it round. "There was madness in the family," he said, after a nip. "Whose?" I asked. "Brassington's?" "No," said the publican, in a tone that implied contempt at my ignorance, in spite of its innocence, "the girl's. Her mother had been in a 'sylum, and so had her grandmother. It was it was heridited. My old man was a warder in a 'sylum.
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