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Excerpt from A Month in Yorkshire
The first two editions of this work had not long been published when I was pelted with animadversions for the scandalous misrepresentation conveyed in my report Of a conversation held with a villager at Burnsall; which conversation may be read in the twenty-second chapter. My reply was, that I had set down less than was spoken - that I had brought no accusation, not having even mentioned the innocent-looking country town as situate in any one of the three Ridings - that what I had seen, however, in some of the large towns, led me to infer that the imputation (if such it were) would hardly fail to apply; and, moreover, if the Yorkshire conscience felt uneasy, was I to be held responsible?
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