254 REMINISCENCES OF 



for the ladies ! ' ' Three cheers for the ladies ! ' 

 sung out the clerk, and instantly the congregation 

 rose and made the rafters ring again with their 

 cheers. 



" Your sincere old friend, 



11 E. W. L. DAVIES." 



loth January, 1890. I went up to Barleythorpe. 



nth. Cottesmore Hounds at Bisbrooke. Gos- 

 ling mounted me on a nice bay horse. 



1 3th. Holy well. Farquhar mounted me on a 

 chestnut horse. Came home lame. 



1 4th. Launde Abbey. Baird mounted me on 

 his grey horse. 



1 6th. Left Barleythorpe and went to Bywell. 

 George Fenwick ill in bed. I did not see him. 

 Owen Wallis was there. 



1 7th. Tynedale Hounds met at Bywell. Nicho- 

 las Cornish, the old huntsman, had become game- 

 keeper to Hugh Fenwick, and was out hunting on 

 foot. I told him I had come to see Armstrong's 

 factory. He said, "A fine place that, sir". " How 

 do you know?" said I. " I sent my son into it as 

 an apprentice, and he worked on till he became a 

 foreman. One of the firm was sent out to China in 

 charge of an arsenal and my son went out as second. 

 After a time the principal died, and my son got the 

 appointment, worth ,2,000 a year." While at 

 Bywell I heard of Sir Robert Dalyell's death very 

 suddenly at the New Club. He was buried on the 

 23rd at St. Andrews. I went home for the funeral. 



