BOBBIE DAWSON. 99 



Yorkshireman, and character, was gathered to his fathers 

 in his ninetieth year. He slept peacefully away, after 

 having begged that he should have a huntsman's funeral. 

 The late Rev. John Hawell, M.A. (Vicar of Ingleby Greenhow) 

 went to see him, and he asked that he should be buried 

 upright, as we read in the " White Doe of Rylston," the 

 Claphams and Mauleverers were. 



Mr. Hawell was taking service at the mother church in the 

 dale at the time of Dawson's illness, and often used to see 

 him and have a bit of talk with him. The Vicar told me 

 that he used to humour Bobbie, but not for a long time 

 did he get to know what the old man's idea was in desiring 

 "ta be putten awaay" (as he termed it) in this manner. At last 

 it came out one day in conversation. " Ya knaw," said 

 Bob, " Ah sail nivver rest unless ya put me away iv a sittin' 

 position, like, seea that Ah can hear t'hoonds when they 

 come doon t' deeal." He was not, of course, buried in this 

 position, though he always imagined he would be. 



Funerals in Yorkshire daleland, perhaps more than in 

 any other part of England, are occurrences of more than 

 ordinary importance and interest in the locality in which 

 they occur. A man may miss Church, he may be irregular 

 in his attendance at his Shepherd's club meeting, possibly 

 he may not like most of his neighbours with clock-work 

 regularity " gan ti market " on Monday or Friday, or when- 

 ever the day may be. Whatever he misses in the way of 

 sight-seeing and holiday-making, he never misses the funeral 

 of those whom he has known or, those who have been identi- 

 fied with the same locality for never so short a period. I 

 remember reading in the life of Johnny Osborne that one of 

 his contemporary trainers near Middleham spent the last 

 days of his life attending these last sad events, whilst I have 

 heard a perfectly true story in Cleveland regarding an old 

 woman, who had become somewhat " dowly " and was 

 ordered a change by the doctor. Seeing his patient some 



days after, the doctor said, " Well, , have you been away 



and had a change ? And do you feel any better ? " The 

 old lady replied, " Whya noo doctor, Ah've been ta three 



