14 MAJOR W. HODSON. 



we should scarcely like to come clown it in broad 

 daylight. 



" One morning we missed our way, and found 

 that we had walked just twenty miles before break- 

 fast. We asked the waiter at the hotel what he 

 could give us for our breakfast. He mentioned a 

 long list of various eatables, and I was amused 

 by Hodson quietly saying, 'Very well, bring them 

 all in.' 



" Our longest walk, of quite fifty miles, was on 

 a Saturday, and about 11 p.m. I said to Hodson, 

 ' I very much fear your father,' the Archdeacon of 

 Stafford, with whom I was staying, 'will sit up in 

 his study till he sees us, and we are within an hour 

 of Sunday morning.' So we agreed to run, and did 

 so at full speed for the last six miles, being in 

 capital condition, and found when we reached Col- 

 wich Vicarage that the good old archdeacon was 

 in his study awaiting our arrival." 



With this feat of youthful endurance the present 

 chapter may come to a fitting close. The evidence 

 here collected will serve at least to show what sort 

 of character W. Hodson left behind him when he 

 quitted Rugby for Cambridge in the autumn of 

 1840. 



