text:  During my residence in Germany I had not forgotten them; and although the austerity of my pursuits in that country had schooled my fancy to a soberer pace I could not forbear from enquiring in one or two letters which I had occasion to write to the younger Sainsbury whether the milkman of Walworth and his Shadow still pursued their rounds uninterrupted or if any thing had transpired that could enlighten our conjectures on their history