Sir,--I wish to point out that "My Tutor's" is hopelessly wrong
in thinking that his Jobey is the real Jobey. Looking through my
diary for June, 1815, I find this entry:--
"News of Waterloo just received. Jobey, who has charge of all
the cricket implements and is generally the custodian of the
playing fields, monstrously drunk, on the ground of having won
the battle."
This conclusively proves that there was a Jobey before the old
fellow who has just died aged 85. But how anyone can be
interested in people aged only 85, I cannot conceive. My own age
is 118, and I am still in possession of an exact memory and a
deadly diary.