BOOK SEVENTH 



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CHAPTER I. 



" We live in deeds, not years j in thoughts, not breaths ; 

 In feelings, not in figures on a dial. 

 We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives 

 Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best." 



Bailey, Festus. 



"Delightful task ! to rear the tender thought. 

 And teach the young idea how to shoot. — Thomso.n. 



rr^HE memory of our local worthies ought not to be suffered to 

 -*- pass unrecorded away. We have already briefly spoken of 

 the labours and estimable qualities of some of those whose names 

 Rossendale may well be proud to hold in remembrance — of 

 Mitchel, Crossley, Porter, Maden, Piccop, Hirst, and others ; and 

 to these we would add a humble but not unworthy name, that of 

 John Lord, who for a long series of years during last century was 

 the principal schoolmaster at Bacup, and taught in the " old 

 school." Mr. Lord was a man of sterling character, of a genial, 

 kind-hearted temperament, ready-witted and merry, and by precept 

 and example exerted a powerful influence on the rising generation 

 of the district in his day. One who knew him well, and who 

 always had a grateful recollection of the benefits he received while 

 a pupil under his care, states that " he had that tact as a teacher 

 that is so essential to make the pupils love and fear him. He 



