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"This man was of wonderful vigor, calmness, beauty of person, The shape of his head, the richness and breadth of his manners, the pale yellow and white of his hair and beard, and the immeasurable meaning of his black eyes, These I used to go and visit him to see he was wise also, He was six feet tall, he was over eighty years old his sons were massive, clean, bearded, tan-faced, handsome, They and his daughters loved him all who saw him loved him, They did not love him by allowance they loved him with personal love; He drank water only the blood showed like scarlet through the clear-brown skin of his face, He was a frequent gunner and fisher he sailed his boat himself he had a fine one presented to him by a ship-joiner he had fowling-pieces presented to him by men that loved him; When he went with his five sons and many grandsons to hunt or fish, you would pick him out as the most beautiful and vigorous of the gang, You would wish long and long to be with him you would wish to sit by him in the boat, that you and he might touch each other."
He lay concealed in the house of an Irish professional man for some weeks, and then, all the railway stations being closely and constantly watched night and day, he was driven in a conveyance by road all the way from Manchester to Liverpool. It was a patriotic foreman ship-joiner, whom I knew well, who actually got him away to America.
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