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And there as I sat I had a dream what did I dream about? the sermon, musing upon which I had been overcome by sleep? not a bit! I dreamt about a widely-different matter. Methought I was in Llangollen fair in the place where the pigs were sold, in the midst of Welsh drovers, immense hogs and immense men whom I took to be the gents of Wolverhampton.
Within an easy distance of Wolverhampton are a very large number of the noblemen's and gentlemen's seats, in which Staffordshire is so rich; more than one ancient and dilapidated family has been restored by the progress of smoke-creating manufactures, which have added to the wealth even more than they destroyed the picturesqueness of the country.
The apparition was so sudden and strange that he immediately concluded that it was a ghost. The weird sight was reported at the stations along the canal, and also at Wolverhampton, which was the boatman's headquarters. He told the people at Patricroft on his return journey what he had seen, and great was the excitement produced. The place was haunted: there was no doubt about it!
This decision, in 1842, looked like the beginning of the end for the tenure of the Meeting Houses themselves, the Wolverhampton case being now decided on the lines of the Hewley judgment.
For some years, with Ockbrook as a centre, they had a clear field for work in the surrounding district; they had preaching places at Eaton, Belper, Codnor, Matlock, Wolverhampton, Sheffield, Dale, and other towns and villages; and yet not a single one of these places ever developed into a congregation. In Bedfordshire the result was equally fatal.
From Worcester we took tickets to Wolverhampton, and thence to Birkenhead. It grew dark before we reached Chester, and began to rain; and when we got to Birkenhead it was a pitiless, pelting storm, under which, on the deck of the steamboat, we crossed the detestable Mersey, two years' trial of which has made me detest it every day more and more.
I realized how near, not only the end of the chapter but the end of the book was, when he was taken ill at Wolverhampton in the spring of 1905. We had not acted together for more than two years then, and times were changed indeed. I went down to Wolverhampton when the news of his illness reached London. I arrived late and went to an hotel.
"He'll weigh about eighteen score," said the man. "What do you mean by eighteen score?" said I. "Eighteen score of pounds," said the man. "And how much do you expect to get for him?" "Eight pounds; I shan't take less." "And who will buy him?" said I. "Some gent from Wolverhampton or about there," said the man; "there will be plenty of gents from Wolverhampton at the fair."
The man knew something of gardening: he had a couple of pounds and some odd shillings in his pocket enough to take him to one of the big midland towns Wolverhampton, I think where he found work as a jobbing gardener.
But that was a private and domestic monument, and the Queen desired that wherever her subjects might be gathered together they should be reminded of the Prince. Her desire was gratified; all over the country at Aberdeen, at Perth, and at Wolverhampton statues of the Prince were erected; and the Queen, making an exception to her rule of retirement, unveiled them herself.
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