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with boracic acid over my eye and a tape round 

 each wrist so that I could not touch it in my sleep. 

 I was kept in a dark room about a fortnight and 

 then got out with a brown paper shade over my 

 eyes. 



Bell Taylor was a most amusing and eccentric 

 man. He lived about four miles out of the town. 

 In the morning he breakfasted on porridge and 

 treacle, walked about his garden composing medical 

 lectures or political papers. (He was a keen Con- 

 servative.) He then mounted a tricycle and rode 

 into Nottingham. He had about thirty tricycles and 

 bicycles in his coach houses. He had a small wooden 

 house at the top of the hill where he left his bike, 

 got into a cab and went to his hospitals — I think he 

 had two or three houses with patients — and then to 

 his rooms, which were full. He had lunch at three 

 o'clock in the kitchen, which was very prettily got up 

 with coloured glass and tiles, and had two nice white 

 horses in loose-boxes close by, with looking-glasses 

 so that they could see themselves. He used to come 

 and sit with me about ten o'clock. I said, " Have 

 you had a busy day ? " "I have seen a hundred and 

 ten fellows and operated ten times." At eleven 

 o'clock he mounted his bike and rode home to his 

 country house. 



I got home. Began hunting with a patch over 

 my eye and never missed a day. 



End of the season 1886 and 1887. — Captain 

 Cheape having given up the West country and 

 having become Master of the Linlithgow and Stirling 



