A Ledger Signed Small
- Quieter than the day
- Passage creeps up
Lowmoor Stage gate ledger, Fifth Age, Book 938. Link 975,022, caught by House Fishpond, head Tamsin Reedwater. 1,392 carried across. Passage two drops a span, entered as paid. Each hood counted twice by the toll-keeper, who wrote the tally small in the margin and signed it R. Ottery. Remarks: the rope held, and the lamp held. Ink dry before the next boat was called.