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the Lady Mayoress accompanied Mr. and 

 Mrs. George Moore down to Cumberland on 

 a visit to that picturesque and romantic 

 county. Almost the first act of the old 

 wrestler was to take his distinguished guests 

 to see some Cumberland wrestling on the 

 island near Low Wood, Windermere. He 

 told them that he owed it to wrestling that he 

 was so hardy and strong at the age of 48, 

 and when he paid his next visit to Cumber- 

 land he distinguished himself with Sir Wil- 

 fred Lawson's hounds, exclaiming to those 

 around him at the end of the run, that he had 

 never hunted in that country since he rode his 

 father's bare-backed old mare after John 

 Peel's harriers to the refrain of the best 

 known hunting song in the world : — 



" D'ye ken John Peel with his coat so grey ? 

 D'ye ken John Peel at the break of day ? 

 D'ye ken John Peel when he's far far away, 



With his hounds and his horn in the morning ? 

 'Twas the sound of his horn brought me from my 



bed, 

 And the cry of his hounds has me oftimes led, 

 For Peel's view-holloa would waken the dead, 

 Or a fox from his lair in the morning." 



Perhaps there never was a truer aphorism 

 known than that uttered by Judge Talfourd 



