278 Life and Times of " The Druid." 



before "The Druid" and his little boy reached 

 home, and certainly the recollection of that 

 night will never fade from the latter's 

 memory. 



Much however, as he loved children, it 

 must be owned that he was a very child him- 

 self in their management, and to the last day 

 of his life he held strongly to the belief that 

 no boy's grievance was too great to be over- 

 come by the liberal application of jam tarts, 

 taken internally. He has been known to bid 

 good-bye to one of his boys, whom he had 

 taken from school for a day, in order to go 

 with him on a visit to some celebrated Kennels 

 and to send him back late at night, tired, 

 sleepy and cross, but the proud possessor of 

 six jam tarts, which were mostly negotiated 

 before the school was reached. Despite this 

 treatment the boy still lives, and "The Druid" 

 wended his way home, quite satisfied that he 

 had done his duty. Ill-health alone prevented 

 him from participating in all the sports and 

 amusements of his sons, and eager as he ever 

 was that he might live to see one of them 

 make a name for himself in the scholastic or 

 literary world, it cannot be denied that these 



