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and saving life at Ramsgate, and the father's body, on its 

 way to Highgate cemetery, was carried across a canal bridge, 

 off which he jumped, in 1849, at twelve o'clock in a ter- 

 rifically stormy night in November, and saved a woman who 

 was drowning in the basin. He had left my chambers that 

 evening, when a regular tempest was raging, and refused to 

 take a bed, as he said that " he enjoyed a walk in a storm ; "" 

 and, on reaching the canal bridge, in Camden Town, h& 

 found an excited mob shouting, but doing nothing practi- 

 cally, to help the drowning woman. The bridge is close to 

 Grafton Street East, and the woman was close to the lock- 

 gate, a considerable distance from the bridge. 



The late warden of Winchester was an astonishing athlete, 

 and at Oxford was champion of the University. When a tutor 

 at New College he constantly walked from Oxford to London 

 and vice versa ; and on one occasion, when a passenger on the 

 coach w^as using very blasphemous language and declined to 

 desist, he seized him and held him over the side of the 

 coach, and threatened to drop him in the road unless he 

 promised to behave better. Lsfc it be remembered also that 

 he attended Freeman the American giant's death-bed all 

 through his last illness. 



So there is something in muscle after all. 



