. Cathedrals, abbeys and churches of England and Wales, descriptive, historical, pictorial . ard; and Holy Communion was celebrated only three times a year. The husbandman to bring- this roug-h erround into tillage now, however, appeared on the scene. Kingsley was born in 1819, under the open brow of Dartmoor. As a lad he revelled in the scenery of the Fens, and afterwards, at fail Clovelly, imbibed the impressions turned to such telling account in West-ward Ho! At the age of twenty-three he settled down at Eversley under the. KINGSLEY S GRAVE. 306 ABBEYS AND CHURCHES. [Selbokne and depressing
. Cathedrals, abbeys and churches of England and Wales, descriptive, historical, pictorial . ard; and Holy Communion was celebrated only three times a year. The husbandman to bring- this roug-h erround into tillage now, however, appeared on the scene. Kingsley was born in 1819, under the open brow of Dartmoor. As a lad he revelled in the scenery of the Fens, and afterwards, at fail Clovelly, imbibed the impressions turned to such telling account in West-ward Ho! At the age of twenty-three he settled down at Eversley under the. KINGSLEY S GRAVE. 306 ABBEYS AND CHURCHES. [Selbokne and depressing circumstances above narrated. He faced all the difficulties with manlyresolution, and, by the time he received his appointment as rector, a healthysystem of progress had been established. Amidst all the occupations of a busy lifehe remained, as he began, a model hard-working parish priest, faithful to hisvillage church, with its prosaic red tower and corner turrets. Amongst the hard-riding farmers and plodding peasants he became all things to all men. As aparagraph in the ]\remories, edited by his widow, puts it, he could swing a flailwith the threshers in the barn, turn his swathe with the mowers in the meadow,pitch hay with the haymakers in the pasture ; and he knew every fox-earth onthe moor, the reedy hover of the pike, and the still hole where the chub lay. The comparison already suggested between the j^arson of Selborne and therector of Eversley is again forced upon us when we consider the conditionsunder which
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