NPPF Re: Notes C.1-4 - C.42

[s~Z]

While no reference to Southey using Dear Stumparumper could be found (Is
stumparumper in Finnegans Wake?) I found 'dear Grandmama' in a tale about a
murder in a stable. The format of the poem is like Kinbote's format for 'T H
E  H A U N T E D  B A R N' on p.190.

Eclogue II
­The Grandmother's Tale
by Robert Southey

Jane.
Harry! I'm tired of playing. We'll draw round
The fire, and Grandmamma perhaps will tell us
One of her stories.

Harry.
Aye--dear Grandmamma!
A pretty story! something dismal now;
A bloody murder.

Jane.
Or about a ghost.

Grandmother.
Nay, nay, I should but frighten you. You know
The other night when I was telling you
About the light in the church-yard, how you trembled
Because the screech-owl hooted at the window,
And would not go to bed.

Jane.
Why Grandmamma
You said yourself you did not like to hear him.
Pray now! we wo'nt be frightened.

Grandmother.
Well, well, children!
But you've heard all my stories. Let me see,--
Did I never tell you how the smuggler murdered
The woman down at Pill?

Harry.
No--never! never!

Grandmother.
Not how he cut her head off in the stable?

Harry.
Oh--now! do tell us that!

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