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for conversing with all sorts and conditions 

 of men, and of being equally at home with 

 the peer and the peasant, found ample scope 

 for indulgence. The following letter, ad- 

 dressed by the Rev. W. B. Philpot, who 

 was at Rugby with ''The Druid," to the 

 latter s wife, speaks of " The Druid's" famili- 

 arity with all classes of society, from the 

 highest to the lowest, in language so ex- 

 pressive that I gladly find room for it 

 here : — 



"The Beach House, 



" Littlehampton, Sussex. 

 "September 12, 1865. 



" Dear Mrs. Dixon, — We had a delightful 

 day at Hurstmonceaux. Your husband is 

 the only man in England who can thoroughly 

 appreciate on one afternoon the shape and 

 make of a female thoroughbred and the 

 memory of a masculine divine ; who can 

 understand Julius Hare in his surplice and 

 Hodge in his smock. I never knew any- 

 body who so completely, so poetically, and 

 philosophically enjoyed the pleasures and 

 pastimes of the moment, and yet had a 



