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more. He alluded to his growing weakness, and 

 there was that in his manner when he met his friends 

 on the hustings, and on the show-field at Carlisle, 

 which pointed too truly to the end. The two-finger 

 salutation was exchanged for the hand-shake, and 

 those with whom he had any political difference felt 

 from his tones, how anxious he was that all should be 

 forgotten. 



Jeremy Taylor's Holy Living and Dying was his 

 constant companion on his death-bed, and when he 

 knew that he was very near the entrance of the dark 

 valley, he calmly laid it by and conversed upon the 

 symptoms of death, as one by one they gathered round 

 him in the twilight of that October morning. Cum- 

 berland might well mourn for him. 



" The sower stayed his hand to hear, 

 The honest "grey coat" sighed, 

 The message seemed so strange and drear, 

 That Friday when he died." 



Not many months before, he had travelled, feeble as 

 he was, many a weary league, to stand by the grave of 

 Sidney Herbert, as he had done by Peel's and Goul- 

 burn's. The Secretary at War was the third of that 

 band of Peelites who had fallen, and there were none 

 of them that Sir James loved more dearly. Writing to 

 the Duke of Newcastle, only a week before his death, 

 respecting a Sidney Herbert memorial he said : " I 

 think a statue of him in Salisbury will be a most 

 suitable monument, under the shadows of the cathedral 

 spire, which points to that Heaven where his hopes 

 were centred, and where I trust he has received his 

 great reward." We too may trust that they are not 

 divided. 



Old Fuller tells us that St. Alsike, whose name is 

 now only had in honour as a grass seed, was born in 

 a wood near Carlisle. He adds that pearls were 

 found in the Irthing, a point which " Sandy" in all his 

 otter hunts has never been able to verify. These notes 



