FIFTY YEARS OF A SHOWMAN'S LIFE 



and patient resignation in her great sorrow, 

 laid down in expressive terms the injunction to 

 herself that she must not allow her thoughts of 

 the dead to interrupt her work for the living ; her 

 strong sense of duty being paramount even in 

 the freshness of an irreparable loss. 



The sister in question, Miss Georgina Ormerod, 

 was her inseparable companion and a worthy 

 help-meet. This sister, in addition to being a 

 scientist of no mean order, and a philanthropist 

 in the best sense of the term, was an admirable 

 artist, devoting her talents in this direction to 

 the illustrating of her sister's investigations. 

 Following the example of her sister, it was a 

 labour of love with her to work for others, and 

 many agricultural institutions have acknow- 

 ledged their indebtedness to the skill and draught- 

 manship bestowed upon the drawings she presented 

 to them. Yet, withal, she was the most retiring 

 and modest of women, always, as it were, sheltering 

 herself beneath the wing of her more famous 

 sister, and only anxious to promote in the most 

 unobtrusive way, the latter's work. 



The practical way in which Miss Eleanor 

 Ormerod gleaned information, and her apprecia- 

 tion of the most likely sources for obtaining it, 

 are illustrated in her own words, which furnish 

 a good example of her simple, unadorned English. 

 " I had," she said, " willing helpers in the agri- 

 cultural labourers when they made up their 

 minds whether they would assist or not. They 

 had always helped, for we were on very friendly 

 terms, and some of them or their children, like 

 myself, had been born on the estate. But, 



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