EAKLY DAYS 9 



I was now too heavy to ride on tlie flat. I was 



with Mr. Wadlow about twelve months when my 



grandmother died and my grandfather 



three years fell ill. As he was living alone, except 



with old r 1 • 1 



Sam for his housekeeper and two servants, 

 Darling j j^^ ^^^ Wadlow's to go and live 



with him. I gave him two or three of the best 

 years of my life, often taking my turn and sitting 

 up for night duty. He was quite a good-living 

 man, reading the Lessons and Psalms morning 

 and evening. He went to church regularly, and 

 was also very regular in his habits ; always took 

 his long walk before lunch and drove out in his 

 little brougham in the afternoon. All of this was, 

 of course, after he retired, and he lived to the 

 great age of eighty-six. Both my father and 

 uncle died as young men. 



