52 Life and Times of " The Druid." 



quently in his writings) led him rather to 

 appreciate the beauty of thought enshrined 

 in the Greek and Latin poets than to study 

 the construction and grammatical niceties of 

 the language in which those thoughts were 

 clothed. In all other respects he was a 

 model pupil — one specially framed to win the 

 highest approbation of the great head master 

 whom he served and looked up to with little 

 less than idolatry, and after whom he named 

 one of his sons. 



The laws of Rugby School require that if 

 a boy is not in the Sixth Form at eighteen 

 years of age he is compelled to leave. At 

 the close of 1840 Henry Dixon was still in 

 the Twenty — the Form interposed between 

 the upper Fifth and the Sixth. He was born 

 in May, 1822, and had therefore attained his 

 eighteenth birthday some months prior to the 

 Christmas of 1840. Under these circum- 

 stances the following letter, addressed by 

 Dr. Arnold to Dixon's father, will speak for 



itself ■ — 



" Foxhow, Ambleside, 



" January 1, 1841. 



" Dear Sir, — I cannot deny myself the 



