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compass of his powers. Readers of his four 

 most interesting works will not require to be 

 reminded that he thought nothing of starting 

 off from London at 4 a.m. with a heavy knap- 

 sack on his back, and walking twenty or 

 thirty miles a day for many consecutive days, 

 resting always on a Sunday, when he made it 

 his invariable duty to attend Divine service 

 at some country church. I have already 

 stated in the preface to this volume, that on 

 one occasion " The Druid " walked from 

 Swindon Junction to Marlborough College 

 (a distance of thirteen or fourteen miles) 

 across the Wiltshire Downs, with a large 

 portmanteau on his shoulder, in order to pay 

 a visit to his old friend and schoolmate, the 

 Rev. Dr. Bradley, then Headmaster of Marl- 

 borough College, and now the successor to 

 Dr. Arthur Stanley as Dean of Westminster. 

 On another occasion he walked from Chippen- 

 ham Station to Badminton, ten miles and a 

 half, and back, to inspect the Duke of 

 Beaufort's hunters and hounds, and aeain he 

 describes himself as lying down under a hedge 

 in the early morning of a summer day, and 

 getting four or five hours of quiet sleep before 



