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When he came of age he entered Parliament for Hindon, in Wiltshire, but seldom went to the House, never spoke in it, and retired after a few sessions. His delight was in the use of the pen; his father, although disappointed by his failure as a statesman, allowed him a thousand a year, and he took a cottage at Barnes, that he might there escape from the world to his ink-bottle.
It relates not to one of those who were sentenced to the gallows or to transportation, but to an inquest and the treatment of the dead. I have spoken in the last chapter of the mob that visited Hindon, Fonthill, and other villages. They ended their round at Pytt House, near Tisbury, where they broke up the machinery.
'There is smoke over yonder, upon the side of that hill, said Saxon, pointing to the southward. 'Methinks I see one straight line of houses there, I observed, shading my eyes with my hand. 'But it is distant, and the shimmer of the sun disturbs the sight. 'It must be the hamlet of Hindon, said Reuben. 'Oh, the heat of this steel coat!
He was but a small boy, attending the Hindon school, when the rioters appeared on the scene, and he watched their entry from the schoolhouse window. It was market-day, and the market was stopped by the invaders, and the agricultural machines brought for sale and exhibition were broken up.
Then the blind son would drive his old mother in the carrier's cart to Bath and call at a dozen or twenty private houses, leaving parcels which had been already ordered and paid for a gallon of brandy at one, two or four gallons of rum at another, and so on, until all was got rid of, and on the following day they would return with goods to Hindon.
We buried our dead next morning and that evening I sent a message to the remainder of the commandos, telling them to cross the line at Uitkijk Station, south-west of Middelburg, whilst Captain Hindon was to lay a mine under the line near the station to blow up any armoured train coming down. Here we managed to get the rest of our laager over without much trouble.
"You must know, then, that farmer Bridle lost a mare, a sorrel one, to the best of my remembrance; and so it fell out that this young Francis shortly afterward being at a fair at Hindon, and as I think it was on , I can't remember the day; and being as he was, what should he happen to meet but a man upon his father's mare.
Hindon is a delightful little village, so rustic and pretty amidst its green, swelling downs, with great woods crowning the heights beyond, that one can hardly credit the fact that it was formerly an important market and session town and a Parliamentary borough returning two members; also that it boasted among other greatnesses thirteen public-houses.
Old memories Hindon as a borough and as a village The Lamb Inn and its birds The "mob" at Hindon The blind smuggler Rawlings of Lower Pertwood Farm Reed, the thresher and deer-stealer He leaves a fortune Devotion to work Old Father Time Groveley Wood and the people's rights Grace Reed and the Earl of Pembroke An illusion of the very aged Sedan-chairs in Bath Stick-gathering by the poor Game-preserving
After an examination before a magistrate the son was discharged on account of his blindness, but the cart and horses, as well as the smuggled spirits, were confiscated, and the poor blind man had to make his way on foot to Hindon.
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