no Life and Times of " The Druid" 



£i y ooo a year, and with a contingent in- 

 terest in the success of the paper, would 

 have preserved him from the hard struggle 

 with poverty, which he was of too delicate 

 and refined a nature to endure with impu- 

 nity. When I mention that " The Druid's " 

 family consisted of seven sons and four 

 daughters, and that his income, when at its 

 highest, never rose above ^"600 a year, and 

 was often under ^500, it needs no words 

 of mine to point out that — 



" Haud facile emergunt quorum virtutibus obstat 

 Res angusta domi." 



That he did so much under these narrow- 

 ing and depressing circumstances is much to 

 his credit ; but still more should it be imputed 

 unto him for righteousness, that he bore him- 

 self like a white-souled Sir Galahad among 

 the temptations and snares with which 

 horse-racing is always surrounded, and was 

 untainted by intercourse with the low and 

 often disreputable waifs and strays of the 

 race-course, among whom his lot was not 

 unfrequently cast, and with some of whom 

 he had a strange and mysterious sympathy. 



