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village pedagogue. He boasts of having coached Charles and Alfred Tennyson in arithmetic, when they were preparing for the University. It will interest some to know that the text-book used was "Walkingham's Tutor's Assistant." This old gentleman is now eighty-five, but is still able to earn a maintenance by land surveying.
These members of a passing generation are interesting links between the days of the Laureate's youth and those of the ripened evidence of his genius.
Tennyson's schoolmaster.
