ii.] QUALITIES. 83 



" Father As a young man, an active cricketer 

 and volunteer officer. A very earnest, active man 

 in business, heavily engaged in it from the age 

 of eighteen. Besides, he took an active part in 

 town affairs and the management of many asso- 

 ciations. Mother A good walker, very active 

 in the management of her house. Although she 

 had a very large family, and took most diligent 

 care of them, she was always at work, collecting 

 all manner of things, arranging, describing, cor- 

 responding, painting, copying ; she was never 

 idle." 



11. "I seem to possess the same unweariedness 

 as my father, and find myself trotting in the 

 streets as my father used to do. 



" Father Was very untiring ; he tells me he 

 has ridden 100 miles in a day. He could walk up 

 one of the North Wales hills when nearly seventy, 

 and used to go long distances in London, passing 

 often from a walk into a run." 



12. "In early life, occasionally working the 

 night through. Great adroitness at games ; fast 

 runner ; got the prize for fencing at ... On 



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