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While I was thus engaged, my companion upon 

 that memorable pilgrimage of 1892, the late la- 

 mented Senator HARRIS, returning from a stroll 

 deciphering the legends borne by various head- 

 stones, repeated solemnly from the immortal "Elegy": 

 "Each in his narrow cell forever laid, 

 The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep." 



BATES once told a crowd in Edinburgh, in the 

 course of one of those after-dinner speeches which 

 he was really fond of making, that while he then 

 lived in York his heart was really in his native 

 Northumberland, where he had resided until his fifty- 

 fifth year. It was about this date 1830 of his 

 removal from Ridley Hall to Kirklevington that the 

 portrait which has been copied for the SADDLE AND 

 SIRLOIN CLUB was painted by SIR WILLIAM Ross of 

 the Royal Academy. 



The inspiring story of how this man sought first 

 to educate himself thoroughly in the arts of agri- 

 culture and constructive cattle-breeding before un- 

 dertaking the task, as he saw it, of conserving that 

 which was best for the benefit of succeeding gener- 

 ations, and the subsequent success achieved, has 

 been the theme of at least two English volumes. 

 The main facts have been summarized by the writer 

 hereof in a book prepared for American readers 



