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viz., a swearing, dissolute person ; but for two or three 

 years previous to this had turned an enthusiastic 

 follower of the Methodists or Dissenters. Wild fowl 

 about. 



" Thursday) 26th. Paid Mr. Harris, executor to 

 Mr. Amherst, a quarter's rent to Michaelmas, 1822. 

 Had a bat with long ears brought me alive. It flew 

 into the linendraper's shop. 



" Friday, 2 7th. Miss Beechy buried. Had two 

 long-tailed titmice brought me. Employed looking 

 over my plants, and selected out thirty-one to give 

 Professor Henslow of Cambridge, because he gave me 

 sixteen which he had selected for me. 



" Saturday, 28th. The Kev. Mr. Durham, full of 

 Greek and Latin questions, visited and puzzled me, 

 by asking me who the father of Joshua was ; when he 

 said the answer was Nun. 



" Sunday, 29th. No gossipers to-day ! 



" Monday, 30th. Mr. Lakes, a student from Cam- 

 bridge, called and bought some butterflies. 



" Tuesday, 3lst. River at London frozen. In after- 

 noon the first snow." 



So closes the Journal for 1822, from which, amidst 

 its varied information, the reader has gathered (pp. 87, 

 148, 149) evidences that Pocock's versatility was equal 

 to combining the business of paperhanging and the 

 profession of correspondence-writing with his other 

 manifold occupations, and these we know included the 

 arts of bookbinding and type-founder ! 



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