_April, 1827._
[132] The Saint Giles’s of Skipton, where the lower order of
inhabitants generally reside.
[133] Should any reader of this day find fault with the inelegant
manner in which the dialogue is carried on between Kitchen and the
soldier, in defence I beg leave to say, the dialogue is told as
general Bibo related it, and though in many parts of the tale I have
made so many alterations, that I should not be guilty of any
impropriety in calling it an original: I do not consider myself
authorized to change the dialogues occasionally introduced.
[134] In Kirby Malhamdale church-yard is a public house, verifying the
lines of the satirist:--
Where God erects a house of prayer,
The devil builds a chapel there.
[135] Skipton-castle.
[136] Rylstone-hall. See Wordsworth’s beautiful poem the White Doe.
[137] History of Craven.
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