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too, and also at seven years of age, saw Mr.

Gladstone in 1896. It was when he arrived at Brighton to address a great, Liberal meeting in the Metropole Hotel.

There was very little cheering, the crowd holding him, as it did seem to me, in so much awe and reverence. Many men took off their hats. As he disappeared into the hotel he took his own hat off with one bow holding the people in as much dignity and respect as they did hold him, and bearing himself with such nobleness as one associates with the dignity of England. It has lasted me through life.—

Yours faithfully, E. C. TIPPETTS The •Vicarage, Newton-upon-Rawdle, Pickering