12 Life and Times of " The Druid? 



such an effort, but his general habit was to 

 sleep till noon, all his hardest work being 

 done between 10 p.m. and 2 a.m. His hours 

 for meals were most irregular. Breakfast he 

 rarely took, and his lunch often consisted of 

 a biscuit and a glass of milk. One large 

 meal was all that he seemed to need, and 

 this was usually taken late at night. Till 

 illness obliged him to follow his doctor's in- 

 structions, water was his sole beverage. He 

 had a weakness, however, for a cup of tea 

 in the afternoon. His dress was as little 

 studied as his other personal comforts, and in 

 order to induce him to put on a new garment 

 it was needful to secrete the old one, and 



I feel sure you will be attracted by them. You will 

 find that the incidents of Mr. Moore's boyhood and 

 early life are sufficiently characteristic to enable you 

 to use some of the excellent material furnished by 

 the habits and traditions of the district. Then I 

 hope you will also find sufficient illustrations in his 

 middle life of his splendid pluck and energy, and 

 again in his later life of his rare liberality. This last 

 trait ought to be instructive because of its extreme 

 rarity among men who have had to struggle as he 

 did. I have never come across any other self-made 

 man who had so entirely got the chill of poverty out 

 of his bones.' " 



