MEMOIR OF THOMAS BEWICK. 71 



and, in his passion, he cursed poor Beilby for 

 his ignorance or for something worse. From this 

 time the Doctor took a liking to me, and often 

 criticised my work. He also took great pains to 

 direct me how to live and manage myself, under 

 so sedentary an employment ; and an intimacy 

 commenced between us which lasted as long as 

 he lived. He urged upon me the necessity of 

 temperance and exercise. I then began to act 

 upon his advice, and to live as he directed, both 

 as to diet and exercise. I had read Lewis 

 Cornaro, and other books, which treated of 

 temperance ; and I greatly valued the advice 

 given in the " Spectator," which strongly 

 recommended all people to have their days of 

 abstinence.* Through life I have experienced 

 the uncommon benefit derived from occasionally 

 pursuing this plan, which always keeps the 

 stomach in proper tone. I regularly pursued my 

 walks, and, whilst thus exercising, my mind was 

 commonly engaged in devising plans for my 

 conduct in life.f 



For a long time, both in summer and winter, 

 I went to Elswick three times a day, at the 

 expense of a penny each time for bread and 



[ * A little copy of the fourth edition of Cornaro's "Sure and 

 Certain Methods of attaining a Long and Healthful Life," etc., 

 dated 1727, and roughly rebound in sheep, is in the possession of the 

 editor, by whom it was purchased at the Bewick sale of February, 

 1884. It once belonged to Robert Elliot Bewick ; and is possibly 

 the identical copy which was his father's companion when wander- 

 ing on the Town Moor, or in the Elswick fields.] 



[ f In the centre of this paragraph in the original MS., Bewick 

 has inserted the tail piece "Temperance is the grand business of 

 life" which appears at p. 198 of the " Fables of >Esop."] 



