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latter's stay in England, no entreaties could 

 prevail upon " The Druid " to accept any 

 remuneration. In despair, Mr. Rarey laid 

 a bag of gold at the feet of Mrs. Dixon, 

 who, however, was sternly commanded to 

 return it without a moment's delay. 



Many a story could be related illustrative 

 of the grand simplicity of his character. 

 When in Scotland he would be the honoured 

 guest of a nobleman one night, and sleeping 

 in a herdsman's hut the next, equally happy 

 and at ease with both, and in each case 

 received with a hearty welcome and keen 

 appreciation. So many-sided was his char- 

 acter that there existed some secret bond of 

 sympathy between him and "all sorts and 

 conditions of men." Interesting records 

 exist, in his own works, of his warm friend- 

 ships with the late Sir Charles Knightley, 

 with Sir Tatton Sykes (both the present 

 Baronet and his genial father), with Mr. 

 George Moore, the philanthropist, and with 

 a host of other great and good men, who 

 treated him with marked respect, and in 

 some cases with affection, and this, in spite 

 of occasional grave differences, both in re- 



