334 Life and Times of " The Druid." 



writer who had given more pleasure to hunt- 

 ing, racing, and coursing men than all his 

 predecessors and successors combined, lived 

 only in works which will not soon pass away. 

 His dying bed was soothed by the un- 

 wearied ministrations and tender solicitude of 

 his wife, by the constant affection of his 

 devoted friend, Mr. John Thornton, and by 

 the generosity and kindness of the present 

 Sir Tatton Sykes. Mr. George Moore, to- 

 gether with his charming wife, also visited 

 his sick room continually, supplying hot- 

 house fruit and champagne. Mrs. Moore, 

 on hearing him express a wish for some 

 genuine Cumberland porridge, came and 

 made it for him with her own hands. As he 

 lay with his hands folded across his breast, it 

 mieht have been said of him, in lines which 

 were never more applicable : 



" No pearl ever lay under Oman's dark water 

 More pure in its shell than thy spirit in thee ! 



