Pages That Mention Lowesloft
Robert Suggate journal and commonplace book, 1874-1878.
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Pages
70 Sumatra
72 Sailors' Leave on Shore at Canton
73 Pulo Penang or Prince of Wales Island
74 Seamens' work when at Sea
75 Singapore
76 The Thames
77 The River Arun and Arundel
78 The Yare River
79 The Tyne River
80 From Newcastle by Land
82 Brighton
84 A new Night-Mare
89 Hastings
90 Lowestoft
92 The Norfolk and Suffolk Broads
95 The Range of Cliff from Lowesloft to Yarmouth
97 The Robin and the Snake
99 The Sea-Side walk from Gorleston Haven.
101 Tunbridge Wells.
102 Gravesend
103 The Pelican Island
104A Exeter, Exmouth, and Sidmouth.
104 Bath
105 Calne
106 Stamford
108 Ipswich
109-110 Southwold
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at Lowesloft, or a village day school near by, but I confess I liked equally well to shoulder my great grandfather's old musket, a regular old "Brown Bess," which I was the happy possessor of, and with a few charges of powder and shot, march to the fields to frighten the rooks and small birds from the newly sown seed, and I will recollect the anger of my father when he discovered that, to make the old gun look more like a fowling piece, I had cut off a long piece of the stock which like all muskets extended nearly up to the muzzle. Again when evening came I was proud to be on the back, sleek and broad as it was, of my favorite '[Dodman?]' as we called him, with his black shining coat, and good tempered looking face, as I took him and his yokefellows on a summer's evening to their night's pasture. 'Gipsey' was my next favorite, she was a 'fast-one' and always ready to give the 'go by' to anything on the road, but her temper was not like my '[Dodman?]'s', no coaxing or cunning would entice her from the meadow easily, she was not to be caught with chaff. Whilst my '[Dodman?]' after a good scamper round the field when he saw what my errand was, would fling his heels into the air and then walk up to me and poke his nose right into the bridle.
Fishing was another of my favorite amusements for leisure time, and on the