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degree. He never altered the routine of his 

 daily life. ' Breakfast at eight ; dinner at one ; 

 supper at nine ; bed at eleven o'clock ; at half- 

 past ten, let who would be there, he knocked 

 out his last pipe." Clearly another Miller o' 

 Dee : " I care for nobody, no, not I, and 

 nobody cares for me " : the kind of man who, 

 having discovered his way, would stick to it ! 



For his time and occupation, Bakewell was 

 a great traveller. In early life he " often left 

 his home to travel about England." " He saw 

 much of the west of England"; he saw the 

 north - west and the south - west ; he saw 

 Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, and Norfolk ; and he 

 also travelled in Holland. Whether he travelled 

 to find or travelled and found cannot now be 

 told probably he did both but at one time 

 and another he brought home the choicest of 

 their stock from several of the places he visited : 

 cattle from the borders of Westmoreland, Lanca- 

 shire, and Yorkshire, sheep from Yorkshire and 

 Lincolnshire, and horses from Holland. Here 

 we are concerned only with cattle. 



One statement regarding Bakewell, namely, 

 that he thought the Devon cattle incapable of 

 improvement by crossing with any other breed, 

 indicates that, at one time, Bakewell held his 

 neighbours' views as to how cattle should be 

 improved, and this is confirmed by the fact that 

 his stock were gathered from herds in different 



