The Gobbler Gobbled
SIR,—Hugh Johnson, in his entertaining article, 'The Gobbler Gobbled' (Spectator, December 10), com- mitted an unforgivable crime which no '0' level English student could make—the last thing one could say of the Reeve was that 'it snewed in his hous of mete and drinke.' It was, of course, the Franklin who kept large stocks of food for passers- by. The Reeve was quite the antithesis of the Franklin, in both appearance and temperament. Whereas the Franklin was genial and generous, the Reeve was a mean customer much given to'sleighte' and 'covyne'—cunning and fraud. C. 3. KETTLE
Malvern College, Worcs.
[We apologise to all the correspondents who noted this slip.
For it is seyd, man maketh ofte a yerde With which the maker is him-self y-beten.'
—Editor, Spectator.]
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