dunwoodie-on-the-hike

Updated: May 29, 2025

The first cook to leave Bangletop under circumstances of a Gallic nature that is, without known cause, wages, or luggage had been employed by Fitzherbert Alexander, seventeenth Baron of Bangletop, through Charles Mortimor de Herbert, Baron Peddlington, formerly of Peddlington Manor at Dunwoodie-on-the-Hike, his private secretary, a handsome old gentleman of sixty-five, who had been deprived of his estates by the crown in 1629 because he was suspected of having inspired a comic broadside published in those troublous days, and directed against Charles the First, which had set all London in a roar.

John Kendrick Bangs - The Water Ghost and Others