over long in any one place. In the following July (1811) the West
Norfolks proceeded to Colchester via Norfolk, after fifteen months of
prison duty and straw-plait destroying. {13b} Captain Borrow betook
himself to East Dereham again to seek for likely recruits. In the
meantime George made his first acquaintance with that universal
specific for success in life, for correctness of conduct, for
soundness of principles--Lilly's Latin Grammar, which to learn by
heart was to acquire a virtue that defied evil. The good old
pedagogue who advocated Lilly's Latin Grammar as a remedy for all
ills, would have traced George Borrow's eventual success in life
entirely to the fact that within three years of the date that the
solemn exhortation was pronounced the boy had learned Lilly by heart,
although without in the least degree comprehending him.

Early in 1812 the regiment turned its head north, and by slow
degrees, with occasional counter marchings, continued to progress
towards Edinburgh, which was reached thirteen months later (6th April
1813). "With drums beating, colours flying, and a long train of
baggage-waggons behind," {13c} the West Norfolk Militia wound its way
up the hill to the Castle, the adjutant's family in a chaise forming
part of the procession. There in barracks the regiment might rest
itself after long and weary marches, and the two young sons of the
adjutant be permitted to continue their studies at the High School,
without the probability that the morrow would see them on the road to
somewhere else.

Whilst at Edinburgh George met with his first experience of racial
feeling, which, under uncongenial conditions, develops into race-
hatred. He discovered that one English boy, when faced by a throng
of young Scots patriots, had best be silent as to the virtues of his