Here..................fon, Gent., of this parif h..........his juft & upright.......................... ..................................
To his........manifold private bene volences he added a diligent....... ................................... .......................beloved wife Amelia, by..............iffue feven daughters..........................
I remembered how the long S’s used to puzzle me as a kid. Used to wonder whether in the old days they pronounced their S’s as F’s, and if so, why.
There was a step behind me. I looked up. A chap in a cassock was standing over me. It was the vicar.
But I mean the vicar! It was old Betterton, who’d been vicar in the old days, not, as a matter of fact, ever since I could remember, but since 1904 or thereabouts. I recognized him at once, tho
