FIRST DAY. 13 



J. \aside\. A sample of the language 

 of Alfred the Great ! O Gemini ! 



S. Give me my rod, and help this gen- 

 tleman to put together his. 



Simon. Eez, zur. 



S. [searching his pockets], u Eh,*" as 

 the great Christopher says, " not in our 

 coat, not in our breeches, not in our hat ! " 

 run up to the house, Simon, and fetch 

 me my fly-book ; you '11 find it on the 

 hall table [exit Simon at the pace of a 

 hunted hare~\. Now then let me tell you 

 that one of the two last words uttered by 

 that fellow was more like the language of 

 Alfred, and Beda, and ^SDlfric, than our 

 own. 



J. Indeed ! Pray let me hear which 

 of them ? 



S. Why that which sounds to moderns 

 the most rustic of any the word " Eez," 

 which is most palpably nothing more than 

 the Anglo-Saxon gese, the g being perhaps 



