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his answer to Groucock's overture was firm 

 and emphatic. " I will be a servant for no 

 other house than Fisher's. The only condi- 

 tion on which I will leave him is a partner- 

 ship." In this way George Moore embarked 

 upon the small business at No. 7, Cheapside, 

 which he afterwards converted into one of 

 the most stupendous and successful establish- 

 ments in the world. The rest of his career 

 is well known, and my only excuse for devot- 

 ing these few pages to the commemoration 

 of his name, is that he was, throughout life, 

 an attached friend of " The Druid," his Cum- 

 brian compatriot, and that he frequently at- 

 tributed no small portion of his own success to 

 the valuable attributes implanted in him by 

 his love and practice of what his fellow 

 Cumbrians call "worsling." It taught him 

 the manliness, courage, and love of open air 

 sports which subsequently culminated in his 

 devotion to fox-hunting, and sent him out in 

 18 16, as a boy of ten, to ride a barebacked 

 horse with John Peel's hounds, over which 

 Sir Wilfred Lawson now holds sway. Many 

 years later, when in 1854 Mr. Alderman 

 Sydney was Lord Mayor of London, he and 



