[Image 498 is verso of leaf 208 patch and text for leaf [121b]] 2
why should Jimmy Legs here to use the Dansker's
words here of the elderly messmate —be
secretly down on Billy Budd? In the
absence of direct motive assignable, could
it be an instance of inimicality beginning
in a spontanious ^ aversion antipathy repugnance

[Image 498 is verso of leaf 208 patch and text for leaf [121b]] 2
why should Jimmy Legs here to use the Dansker's
words here of the elderly messmate —be
secretly down on Billy Budd? In the
absence of direct motive assignable, could
it be an instance of inimicality beginning
in a spontanious ^ aversion antipathy repugnance

Transcribed by: John Bryant