Notes from "An Evening's Entertainment" by M.R. James, Part 1

[goatgodschild]

Cottage:
- left side of lane
- now has bushes and rough ground
- now has a broken hedge
- gooseberry bushes
- currant bushes
- on squire's land

Mr. Davis (owner):
- not born in parish
- lived to himself
- rarely went to the pub
- didn't work for any farmer
- had money of his own
- went to town every market day, for his mail
+ brought home a young man

Young man:
- student? worker? (teacher?)
- lived with Davis
- pale and ugly
- didn't have much to say for himself

Together, they:
- always go out walking
+ late evening and early morning (tween times?)
+ in the downland and woods
- once a month, they went to the Green Man figure carved on the hill
+ in summer, they camped there overnight
+ it was believed that meetings went on at night, on that hill, "and that those who went were up to no good"


- "We don't want for company at such times"
- The graves and bodies in the barrows "look to me to be older-like than the ancient Romans, and dressed different"
- The heathens and their sacrifices