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which did us such good service from The Orkneys to 

 Kensington, is sold, and cropping the Midland pas- 

 tures. There was no need for her in a land of bound- 

 less railways ; the pad was hung up with the macin- 

 tosh as a trophy to the God of Storms ; and valise in 

 hand we book at Wetheral for our English tour. 

 The Carlisle and Newcastle is a patent safety line, 

 more than thirty years old and equal to sixty miles in 

 three hours with punctuality and despatch. Express 

 trains it considers to be a delusion and a snare, and 

 every train, bar one, stops at every station. When it 

 was opened in state, the Mayors of Newcastle and 

 Carlisle returned to the Carlisle banquet in a truck, 

 with sword, mace, and serjeant, protected only from 

 the pour-down by a tarpaulin. Its up and down trains 

 ran for years on the reverse side to every railway in 

 existence. By way of compensation to the pockets of 

 the coachmen and guards, which it originally threw 

 out of work, it engaged them in the latter capacity, 

 and, by way of consoling them, it enacted that they 

 should eschew the conventional green, and stick to 

 white hats and scarlet coats. A neighbouring railway 

 elected a policeman with a wooden leg ; but our old 

 friend was not to be outdone, as it had, years before, 

 selected a man with no legs as station-master, and 

 when the train arrived he rode about the Blaydon 

 platform on a donkey collecting the tickets. 



It is "the leafy month of June" and Corby's woods 

 look down in all their freshness on the Eden below, 

 and seem to fling their shadow over the church, be- 

 neath whose " marble hearse," which the genius of Nol- 

 lekens called into being, their rare old master, Henry 

 Howard, lies buried. Three or four " perpetual cu- 

 rates" have stood in that Wetheral pulpit since the 

 days of Mr. Stanger, that lean and learned sixth 

 wrangler, whom no bishop could tame. Bluff Good- 

 enough or courtly Percy was all one to him ; and if 

 the. latter asked him by circular for a return of the 



