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will go with you, and see that you do as I have told you !" Next morning 



the keeper and Mr S liberated the badger into its burrow as the}' 



had been told to do. On the following day the keeper met Mr Leather, 

 who at once asked, " Well, did you liberate the badger as I told you ?" and 

 on being assured that it had been liberated as he ordered, he turned to 

 the keeper and said rather emphatically, " Now remember, 1 ordered you 

 to carry the badger to Detchant Wood on your back, and 1 think you 

 would find it pretty heavy before you got there, to teach you a lesson that 

 in future you are not to interfere in any way with those animals." 



J. A. 



Memoir of the late Rev. William Darnell, M.A. 



' ' The Rev. William Darnell, for upwards of forty years bene- 

 ficed in Northumberland, was the eldest son of the Eev. William 

 Nicholas Darnell, B.D., sometime Prebendary of Durham and 

 Rector of Stanhope, editor and author of the "Correspondence 

 of Isaac Basire, with a Memoir of his life," London 1831, and of 

 other writings. He was born in 181G, and was educated at 

 Winchester, and Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where he took 

 the degree of B.A. in 1838, and M.A. in 1843. He was ordained 

 in 1839, and for some time acted in the capacity of Domestic 

 Chaplain to the Duke of Buccleuch, at Dalkeith Palace. In 1841, 

 he was presented by the Trustees of Lord Crewe's Charity to the 

 Vicarage of Bamburgh, which he held till 1882, when he resigned 

 it and went to live in the south of England, on account of the 

 delicate health of some of the members of his family. He was 

 an excellent parish priest ; and during the long period of his in- 

 cumbency, earned for himself the respect and esteem of the people 

 committed to his charge. In private life he was a staunch friend, 

 and his loss will be sincerely lamented. Mr Darnell married 

 Prances, eldest daughter of the late Venerable Archdeacon Thorp, 

 Warden of Durham, and Rector of Eyton. He died at his 

 residence in St Leonards-on-Sea, on the 9th April 1885, and his 

 remains were brought down to Durham, and laid in the grave 

 yard of the Cathedral on the 14th, when Canon Body, the Sacrist, 

 Rev. W. H. Robertson, and the Precentor, Rev. E. Greatorex 

 (Mr Darnell's brother-in-law,) conducted the services. There 

 was a very large attendance of relatives and friends." (Newcastle- 

 upon-Tyne Diocesan Magazine, April 1885, p, 93.) 



