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his sister Dorothy and his sister-in-law, Miss 

 Hutchinson, and one to his daughter, and 

 in futurOy long may it be so, to Mrs. Words- 

 worth : Veritas, the family motto, over each. 

 How befitting it is that these the female 

 members of his family should be thus remem- 

 bered can be duly appreciated only by those 

 who are aware of what he owed to them, the 

 beneficial influence they shed around his home, 

 the help, the comfort, the happiness he derived 

 from their ministering. They indeed were 

 everything to him. In his writings full justice 

 perhaps has been done to his charming sister ; 

 but less so to his hardly less deserving sister- 

 in-law, a woman of most upright mind and 

 vigorous intellect. It was from her, I may tell 

 you, that he acquired his knowledge of the 

 noble character of the Pedlar *, the travelling 

 merchant of the olden time, the chief per- 

 sonage in the " Excursion." The character was a 

 real one. It had fallen to her lot to have been 



* See note to the " Excursion," with an extract from 

 Heron's " Journey in Scotland/' vol. i. p. 89, descrip- 

 tive of the estimation in which the business of the 

 pedlar was formerly held. 



