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Updated: May 15, 2025
Mixen Lane was the Adullam of all the surrounding villages. It was the hiding-place of those who were in distress, and in debt, and trouble of every kind. Farm-labourers and other peasants, who combined a little poaching with their farming, and a little brawling and bibbing with their poaching, found themselves sooner or later in Mixen Lane.
This course was decided on, and the group separated, Buzzford saying to Coney, "Come, my ancient friend; let's move on. There's nothing more to see here." These well-intentioned ones would have been surprised had they known how ripe the great jocular plot really was. "Yes, to-night," Jopp had said to the Peter's party at the corner of Mixen Lane.
You sold them slily the next morning, and the day after you stood before the magistrates with the eyes of all your sympathizing neighbours concentrated on your back. You disappeared for a time; then you were again found quietly living in Mixen Lane. Walking along the lane at dusk the stranger was struck by two or three peculiar features therein.
'I have noticed for some time, she said, 'a lurid glare over the Durnover end of the town. It seems to come from somewhere about Mixen Lane. 'The lamps, he suggested. 'There's not a lamp as big as a rushlight in the whole lane. It is where the cholera is worst. By Standfast Corner, a little beyond the Cross, they suddenly obtained an end view of the lane.
The inn called Peter's Finger was the church of Mixen Lane. It was centrally situate, as such places should be, and bore about the same social relation to the Three Mariners as the latter bore to the King's Arms. At first sight the inn was so respectable as to be puzzling. The front door was kept shut, and the step was so clean that evidently but few persons entered over its sanded surface.
"A hostel's no place for a discreet dame to bide in," put forth an honest voice. "Maiden, I know not who or what you are, but I came o' this pilgrimage to please my old mother, who said I might do my soul good, and bring home a wife better over the moor than over the mixen and I know she would give thee a right good welcome.
'Not too hard, my dear, he said: 'led him gently down on the mixen. That will be quite enough. Then he turned the saddle off, and I was up in a moment. She began at first so easily, and pricked her ears so lovingly, and minced about as if pleased to find so light a weight upon her, that I thought she knew I could ride a little, and feared to show any capers.
He said very softly in Italian to Lascelles: 'Both your hands are upon the table; if you move one my dagger pierces your eye to the brain. So also if you speak in the English language. Lascelles muttered: 'Judas! Traditore! Viridus sat motionless, and Culpepper moved his finger across the plan of the farm. 'Here is the mixen, he appealed to Viridus, who nodded.
Jopp had mostly kept himself out of this company, but present circumstances made him somewhat more reckless than usual, and without many words he decided to go to his destination that way. Though the upper part of Durnover was mainly composed of a curious congeries of barns and farm-steads, there was a less picturesque side to the parish. This was Mixen Lane, now in great part pulled down.
* A homely proverb, signifying better wed a neighbour than one fetched from a distance. Mixen signifies dunghill. he may gang farther and fare waur but that's a' ane to the sang, 'I'm Madge of the country, I'm Madge of the town, And I'm Madge of the lad I am blithest to own The Lady of Beeve in diamonds may shine, But has not a heart half so lightsome as mine.
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