Note 24 — Chapter III
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Vide Carr and Blind Bet. Carr, in his travels, meets on the roadside in Wales a stone-blind woman, supporting herself and infirm mother by the sale of gloves and stockings. The traveller perpetrates some verses on the occasion, which he introduces in this ludicrous fashion: “Upon her quitting us, the following lines found their way into my pocket-book!”