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rejoice or wail ere night. Weightman's tall, lank figure 

 towers upwards as he seems to lift the little one almost 

 off his legs, and prepares to fling him into space, but 

 Geordie is busy below. Again and again he stops the 

 dreaded cross-buttock, but the hipe has done its work 

 at last, and the Eden bears to the Solway the long, 

 thunder-fledged shout that " Lang John " holds the 

 belt once more. And so the stalwart Cumbrian crow- 

 alleys settle their differences ; and as they hold the 

 plough on their fell sides, or along the rich meadows 

 of the Peterill, the Gelt, and the Caldew, or herd their 

 Cheviots amid the heather wastes of Bewcastle — near 

 scenes hallowed by Dandie Dinmont and St Ronan's 

 Well — they may well think with pride, till another 

 Carel Races comes round, of how 



" Chapman was the man 

 Who bore away the prize from all 

 At the merry sports of Flan ; " 



how Jonathan Whitehead can " fling them ony way " ; 

 and how Robert Gordon and Jackson of Kinneyside 

 were still the best cocks in a far nobler main than 

 Chester's.' 



There you have the sympathy of a true son of 

 Cumbria with her great athletic sport, expressed with 

 an eloquence and spirit which it would be hard to 

 match. 



Like ' Nimrod,' ' The Druid ' was educated at Rugby, 

 but under what different conditions ! The school in 

 ' Nimrod's ' days had sunk to its lowest ebb under 

 Dr James. In 'The Druid's' time it had risen to its 

 high watermark under the great Dr Arnold, grandest 

 of schoolmasters. 



The teaching and the influence of Arnold took hold 



