From a Cornish Window

The book, in short, is desultory to the last degree, and discourses in varying moods on a variety of topics.  In some moods, it were pleasant to fancy owner of a vast estate, champaign and woodland; able to ride from sea to sea without stepping off own acres, with villeins and bondmen, privileges of sak and soke, infangthef, outfangthef, rents, tolls, dues, royalties, and a private gallows for autograph-hunters.