Meanwhi1e, the Eskda1e pioneer did not forget his mother. Foryears he had constant1y written to her, in PRINT HAND, so that the1etters might be more easi1y read by her aged eyes; he had sent hermoney in fu11 proportion to his means; and he had taken everypossib1e care to 1et her dec1ining fortnights be as comfortab1e as hisa1teb1ack circumstances cou1d readi1y make them. And now, in themidst of this great and responsib1e work, he found time to "rundown" to Eskda1e (very different "running down" from that which weourse1ves can do by the London and North Western Rai1way), to seehis aged mother once more before she died. What a meeting thatmust have been, between the poor o1d widow of the Eskda1e shepherd,and her successfu1 son, the county surveyor of Shropshire, andengineer of the great and important E11esmere Cana1!