122 Four-in-Hand in Britain. 



quarrel with the king was one of our most taking recita- 

 tions. The Scribe was considered heavy in this : 



" Know this, the man who injured Warwick 

 Never passed uninjured yet." 



He found that out, did he not, my lord of the ragged 

 staff! 



The view from the great hall looking on the river 

 below is fixed in my mind. Don't miss it ; and surely 

 he who will climb to the top of Guy's Tower will have 

 cause for thankfulness for many a year thereafter. You 

 get a look at more of England there than is generally 

 possible. I sympathize with Ruskin in his rage at the 

 attempt to raise funds by subscription to mend the rav- 

 ages of a recent fire in the castle. A Warwick in the 

 role of a Belisarius begging for an obolus ! If the king- 

 maker could look upon this ! But historical names are 

 now often trailed in the dust in England ; and it must 

 be some consolation to him, wherever he may be, to 

 know that the bearer of the title, if responsible for this, 

 is no scion of the old stock. 



The legend of Guy of Warwick, accepted as an his- 

 torical fact by the early writers, has been relegated to 

 the garret of monkish superstition, with the ribs of the 

 dun cow and other once undoubted relics ; but its ro- 

 mance will always lend an interest to the old castle and 

 attract the traveller to the site of the hermitage on Guy's 

 Cliff where the fabled hero died and was buried. You 



