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 parts in those days! Space will not permit a detailed description of these historic fanes; indeed, to do Stamford justice would take at least several chapters, and I have not even one to spare!

Next our wanderings led us into an old grave-*yard to see the last resting-place of a famous Stamford native, whose size was his fame! His tombstone inscription tells its own story without any further comment of mine, and thus it runs:—

In Remembrance of That Prodigy in Nature Daniel Lambert who was possessed of An exalted and convivial mind And in personal greatness Had no Competitor He measured three feet one inch round the leg Nine feet four inches round the body And Weighed Fifty-two stone Eleven pounds! He departed this life On the 21st of June 1803 Aged 39 years.

"An exalted and convivial mind" is good, it is a phrase worth noting. Our good-natured guide informed us that after the death of this worthy citizen his stockings were kept for many years hung up in a room of one of the inns as a curiosity, and that he distinctly remembered being taken there by his father when a boy, and being placed inside one of the stockings.

After this in a different part of the town we had