His Birthplace and its Influences. 15 



panions ; more frequently than not, he would 

 tramp on and on, mile after mile, without 

 giving a thought to food. This in some 

 measure resulted from his determination to 

 spend nothing on himself. Ever liberal to 

 his wife, children and friends, he grudged 

 the smallest outlay on his own personal 

 wants." 



Who can doubt, after reading the above 

 touching sketch, that ''The Druid" owed 

 many of the attributes which made him what 

 he was to the Cumbrian blood which flowed 

 in his veins ? His family sprang originally 

 from a race of " Statesmen," whom he resem- 

 bled in the austere simplicity, the sterling 

 honesty, the fearless truthfulness, the coura- 

 geous endurance of fatigue, the indifference to 

 danger, exposure and hard fare which were 

 the most marked of his characteristics. The 

 gradual evolution of his life I shall endeavour 

 to trace out in the following pages, but be- 

 fore closing this chapter I cannot refrain from 

 quoting a few sentences from the lecture 

 which the late Professor Freeman delivered 

 at Carlisle on the place in English history 

 filled by that ancient city. It was one of 



