260 Poachers and Poaching. 



Red Tarn, black and silent, below. Striding 

 Edge is the spot where young Gough was killed. 

 To its north-west is Swirrel Edge. That is 

 Catchedecam. Betwixt the last-named and 

 Saddle-back a bit of the Solway is seen ; while 

 the skyline beyond is formed by the Scotch 

 mountains. The ravines and precipices of the 

 sides of Helvellyn exemplify in a striking manner 

 the possible power of those elements whose 

 ordinary effects are trivial and unnoticed. 



A mountain storm in summer is terrible enough 

 if long continued ; but the same phenomenon 

 in winter is grander and more terrible still. 

 The crags of the English mountains claim a 

 long list of victims ; but for tragic interest 

 the following is perhaps the saddest of all. 

 The subject of it was a young man of great 

 promise, who in early life had been edu- 

 cated for the Church. Just as he was ripe for 

 college, his father, who was at the head of a 

 great mercantile concern, died. This event 

 made it imperative that the young scholar should 

 immediately embark in trade an undertaking 

 as uncongenial as imperative. The fortunes of 

 his family were threatened, and the only hope of 

 his mother and sisters was that the son should 

 successfully carry on what the father had com- 

 menced. A student of books rather than of men, 

 he was ill fitted for the unequal fight, and after 

 struggling for ten years was only liberated by 



