Written about the same time as 'The Brothers.' The sheepfold on which so much of the poem turns, remains, or rather the ruins of it.

The character and circumstances of Luke were taken from a family to whom had belonged, many years before, the house we lived in at Town-End, along with some fields and woodlands on the eastern shore of Grasmere.

The name of the Evening Star was not in fact given to this house, but to another on the same side of the valley more to the north.
[On opposite page in pencil--' Greenhead Ghyll.'] 77.

_Clipping_.
'The Clipping Tree, a name which yet it bears' (foot-note on 1.
169).
Clipping is the word used in the North of England for shearing.
78.

*_The Widow on Windermere Side_.