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CHAPTER VI. 



' THE DONCASTER GAZETTE. 



HE only four newspapers to 

 which " The Druid " was a 

 regular paid contributor, and 

 on the staff of which he held 

 a permanent position, were the Doncaster 

 Gazette, Bell's Life in London, the Mark 

 Lane Express, and the Sporting Life. That 

 he sent voluntary contributions, for which, 

 in most cases, no payment was asked, to 

 other papers and periodicals (and especially 

 to the Carlisle Jottrnal) is well known 

 to his family. He was also a contributor 

 of verses to other journals, of which he 

 specifically names two — Punch and The 

 Examiner — and in addition he wrote irregu- 

 larly for the Daily News, though he was 

 never on the staff of that journal, the Editor 



