THE STUDY AT 1K)WN.' 



CHAPTER III. 



REMINISCENCES OF MY FATHER'S EVERYDAY LIFE. 



IT is my wish in the present chapter to give some idea of my 

 father's everyday life. It has seemed to me that I might 

 carry out this object in the form of a rough sketch of a day's 

 life at Down, interspersed with such recollections as are called 

 up by the record. Many of these recollections, which have 

 a meaning for those who knew my father, will seem colourless 

 or trifling to strangers. Nevertheless, I give them in the 

 hope that they may help to preserve that impression of his 

 personality which remains on the minds of those who knew 



9Vom the 'Century Magazine,' January 1883. 



