An Autobiography of an Ancient Athlete & Antiquarian

AUTOBIOGRAPHY 45 In 1877 the second part of the first volume of the Norfolk Antiquarian Miscellany W8S brought out, and opened with an account of the prophesies, traditions, and superstitions of Norfolk by myself, which I think I may say bas formed the storehouse whence the '' popular ,r writers have siuoe drawn the facts. Another paper for which I was resp nsible was on the alleged abduction and circumcision of a boy at Norwich in 1230, in which I printed (for th first time) a mass of evidence from the Public Record Office, and a posthumous (?) paper by L'Estrauge o Early Norfolk Wills. I was su ciently recovered to take the bags with G. F. Harris, and on 9th February, 1875, ran in the Thames Long Steepl chases, but was unplaced ; and on 16th February, in a 15 mile run of the S.L.H. My brotl:ier Frank returned from Canada, but his little son, Hugh Everard Rye, born at Barrie, 20th February, died on the 7 1 h July and was buried at sea from the S.Sr Circassian. This sp ing I took to cycling on a lever bicycle, and by February rode 16 miles. My wife broke her arm on rst March, er pluck was very noticeable, for after it was put in splints she came down and met me at the door on my return fr2 1 business to tell me herself of the accident. On 3rd March nearly killed myself with the garden roller. On e 26th March I saw E.B.G. run a mile at Greenhills, where he did a mile in 4-44½. On 6th April I nearly took an ol<l house at Egham, and on the 15th April E.B.G. did not win the championship mile as we hoped he would, and on 30th at the L.A.Cr was the "any port in a storm" episode with J.J.B. During this year my mother's cousins, the Stonestreets, came from the Cape, and on the 18th April I saw E. Mr Beloe, of Lynn, for the first time, and after a stay at Lynn at Easter and working round to Norwich by East Winch and Swaffham. My partner, however, getting married, we sold the lease of the house, and I afterwards bought the freehold of a modern detached house at Selhurst, near Croydon, called "Niel Lodge," and afterwards some other houses and land adjoining, which enabled me to indulge in my growing gardening tastes by building a long lean-to greenhouse with a south aspect, heated throughout by hot water pipes