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hedge was cut within the park, which seemed fully 

 two miles round, or else " there would be no berries 

 for the blackbird or the poor man." Then he paused 

 over the thorn which " bloomed in the winter of its 

 days," like its sister of Glastonbury, and was rich 

 with white honours on Christmas morning. We saw 

 the keepers' huts, and then turned, near the spot he 

 had chosen for his burial — over the little bridge by the 

 cranberry tree, and away to the heron nests. On our 

 left were twelve large willows, one of which had been 

 broken during a thunderstorm, and had been spliced 

 up again with iron. " There" said he, "are the Twelve 

 Apostles ; the broken one is Jndas Iscariot ; I hear it 

 groaning like a troubled spirit, when the wind is high!' 

 And so we left him in his lodge in the wilderness, and 

 we saw him again no more. 



Like Lord Brougham, his death was forestalled, 

 and he had the rare pleasure of reading during his 

 lifetime a singularly graceful tribute to his memory 

 in the Daily Telegraph. It showed him that a host 

 of younger men might rise, but that there was still 

 a grateful thought of one who had been foremost 

 among the best in his day. We look with sadness 

 at the last letter (Jan. 22nd, 1865) we ever had 

 from him, written in a firm hand, which told little 

 of eighty-three, and especially at the characteristic 

 postscript, which contained the gist of the whole : 

 "Walton Hall is twelve miles south of Leeds, and 

 the nightingale breeds here and sings here charm- 

 ingly. — C. W." The Telegraph article was written 

 in the winter of the previous year, and he saw the 

 seasons round once more, and then sank from the 

 effects of a slight accident, a fall from the rustic bridge 

 near his future grave, when the insect world had burst 

 into life, and all nature was carolling round hin<, in 

 his favourite month of May. The sympathies o his 

 earliest years were true to him in death. He directed 

 by his will that he should be rowed to his tomb, 



