MEMOIR OF THOMAS BEWICK. 173 



dedicated his whole time to the watch-crystal 

 and clock manufactory, in which he had been 

 long engaged before our separation. 



The printing of other editions of the first volume 

 of the Birds still met with a ready sale ; but some 

 disputes happening between us and Mrs. Hodgson, 

 the widow of our much esteemed friend, respecting 

 the printing of the Quadrupeds, Mr. Beilby, who 

 now sought repose, and could not be turmoiled 

 with disputes of any kind, sold me his third share 

 of that publication. Sometime before the second 

 volume of the Birds was put to press, he also 

 sold me his share of this first volume. For his 

 third share of the Quadrupeds I paid him one 

 hundred pounds, and for his half share of the first 

 volume of the Birds I paid him three hundred 

 pounds. I had no sooner agreed to give this latter 

 sum than many recollections of the past crowded 

 upon my mind, and looking at the unfavourable 

 side, I could not help thinking of the extra labour 

 and time I had spent in the completion of these 

 works, wherein he had borne comparatively a 

 small part nor even an equivalent as to his time 

 and labour in the other department of our busi- 

 ness ; and in this instance I could not help 

 thinking that he had forgot himself and had 

 suffered greediness to take possession of his mind ; 

 but, having promised to pay the sum, I made no 

 further observations to any one. On the other 

 side of this account, I called to my remembrance 

 the many obligations I owed him, for the wise 

 admonitions he had given, and the example he 

 had set me, while I was only a wild and giddy 

 youth. These I never could forget, and they im- 

 planted so rooted a respect for him that I had 



