PART IV 



Home Life 

 (By W. G. Wallace and Violet Wallace) 



IN our father's youth and prime he was 6 ft. 1 in. in 

 height, with square though not very broad shoulders. 

 At the time to which our first clear recollections go 

 back he had already acquired a slight stoop due to long 

 hours spent at his desk, and this became more pronounced 

 with advancing age ; but he was always tall, spare and very 

 active, and walked with a long easy swinging stride 

 which he retained to the end of his life. 



As a boy he does not appear to have been very athletic 

 or muscularly strong, and his shortsightedness probably 

 prevented him from taking part in many of the pastimes 

 of his schoolfellows. He was never a good swimmer, and 

 he used to say that his long legs pulled him down. He 

 was, however, always a good walker and, until quite late 

 in life, capable of taking long country walks, of which he 

 was YeTj fond. 



He was very quick and active in his movements at times, 

 and even when 90 years of age would get up on a chair or 

 sofa to reach a book from a high shelf, and move about his 

 study with rapid strides to find some paper to which he 

 wished to refer. 



When out of doors he usually carried an umbrella, and 

 in the garden a stick, upon which ho leaned rather heavily 

 in his later years. His hair became white rather early in 

 life, but it remained thick and fine to the last, a fact which 

 he attributed to always wearing soft hats. He had full 



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