17 MARCH 1883, Page 15

WOLVES "THINK LONG."

(To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—With reference to a quotation from Milton, in the article on "The Conditions of the Grand Style," in your paper for last week, the expression "to think long" is always used in Nor- folk speech for "to long." " She'll be home in the morning [i.e., to-morrow]. I think long to see her again." "I think long to get out." Probably, in Milton's time it was good English, like so many other provincialisms.—I am, Sir, &c.,

E.G. T. F.