A gloss from the Type-Setter: the Editor having succumbed to the lure of the hunting field, it falls to the Type-Setter to endeavour to resolve another question of attribution.
Category: Repton’s life
Mr R.S. has written from Devon to ask our editor why Repton cross-references from red book to red book
‘Many theorists have advanced evidence for an association between Humphry Repton and Jane Austen.
Oofy here: Editorial: time to talk horses. Bought Gi-gi at the Stowe Fair. Crossed the gipsy’s palm with silver and she said the horse was mine. Couldn’t run faster if she had 5 legs. Matter of fact. You can say that about her. Fact is. If you were a horse and had 5 legs you’d spend all your time thinking which hoof to go down on next. Never get anywhere.
The Type-Setter is to be found in transit. He is either running upstairs from the editorial sofa to the observatory in the attic where the Professor contemplates the works of Humphry Repton, or downstairs in the other direction. Orders from the editor fly one way, rebuttals and refusals fly the other. ‘Rush! Rush! Always rush!’ he can be heard to say. It is his business to transmute the sparks and ferocities of his colleagues into the honeyed purr of mutual delight.
Oofy here: Editorial: Not interested in this. What’s Repton, what’s Brown? Without Austen.
Norris Castle, with every indication of treasure
‘Lo! Oofy here. Only trick I learnt at prepper was from One-legged Lemon – don’t know why we called him that. His name was Mr Lemon.