36 Life and Times of " The Druid!' 



he was at the works when they started for 

 the day, seeing that all were at their post, 

 and getting through an hour or two's hard 

 work before breakfast, and before most 

 young men were out of their beds. This 

 practice he continued till late in life, when 

 failing health obliged him to give up the 

 active habits which he had so long and 

 sedulously cultivated. 



11 There are still some who can call to mind 

 his activity in other pursuits as well as in his 

 business. Some few Volunteers, now ' in 

 the sere, the yellow leaf,' will remember him 

 in the green uniform of the Cumberland 

 Rangers in the time of the war ; and here 

 and there an old sportsman will recall his red 

 coat when he hunted with the Inglewood 

 hounds. 



11 Mr. Peter Dixon early began with his 

 eldest brother, Mr. John Dixon, to take a 

 part in public affairs, and there is hardly an 

 event in the commercial or political history 

 of Carlisle in the present century with which 

 they and the firm to which they belonged 

 were not more or less connected. 



"As a politician Mr. Dixon began life as 



