3 oo FRANCIS ORPEN MORRIS 



It certainly speaks well for his activity and 

 patience when, in his eightieth year, merely for 

 some literary purpose, he read, or rather looked, 

 Shakespeare through, and not only so, but as he 

 went on, proceeded to put down any short passages 

 which, one knows not how or why, have become 

 " familiar in our ears as household words." These, 

 which make quite an interesting array of quotations, 

 he contributed to the pages of the Stony hurst Maga- 

 zine, having previously sent some lengthy articles to 

 that publication on ornithological subjects, notably 

 one on the Sparrow, a bird for whom he was always 

 prepared to do battle. 



Another small by-work that he undertook in 

 these latter years was to compile from the larger 

 work of Bishop Wordsworth an epitomised com- 

 mentary of the Book of Revelation ; he never 

 did more than write it, beyond contributing por- 

 tions of it to one of the Church papers.. It was 

 evident at least that he must have expended no 

 little time and care upon this task. 



From his earliest years everything pertaining to 

 the sea had a great fascination for him ; even the 

 sight of a ship always attracted his attention, and 

 he would minutely observe and comment upon the 

 " cut of the jib," the style of her rigging, and general 

 appearance of her lines. He was fond of making 

 models of yachts in his younger days, and the same 

 taste broke out when he was past seventy, for he 

 then began, though never completed, the model 

 of a schooner which took his fancy. It was a 



