"'I wonder to myself how they can all get on without me; how they manage, bird and flower, without ME, to keep the calendar for them. For I noted it so carefully and lovingly day by day.' "And this: "'They go on without me, orchis-flower and cowslip. I cannot number them all. I hear, as it were, the patter of their feet--flower and buds, and the beautiful clouds that go over, with the sweet rush of rain and burst of sun glory among the leafy trees. They go on, and I am no more than the least of the empty shells that strew the sward of the hill.' "One thing I saw in one of his last note-books: 'Three great giants are against me--disease, despair, and poverty.' "One thing more. His wife said that their time had been for long spent in prayer together and reading St. Luke. "Almost his last intelligible words were, 'Yes, yes; that is so. Help, Lord, for Jesus' sake. Darling, good-bye. God bless you and the children, and save you all from such great pain.' * * * * * "He was buried at Broadwater, by Worthing, Sussex. "In the gentlest, sweet, soft, sunny rain he was borne along the path to his grave in the grass, and when the last part of the service for the dead had been read, well and solemnly, and we turned away leaving him for ever on earth, the large tears from heaven fell thick and fast, and over and over again came to me the saying, 'Happy are the dead that the rain rains on.' The modest home-made wreath of wild wood-clematis and myrtle my wife had sent pleased me by happy symbolism--for as the myrtle is, so will his memory be, 'for ever green.' "Mourn, little harebells, o'er the lea; Ye stately foxgloves fair to see; Ye woodbines hanging bonnilie In scented bowers; Ye roses on your thorny tree, The first o' flowers. "Mourn, Spring, thou darling of the year; Ilk cowslip-cup shall kep a tear; Thou Summer, while each corny spear Shoots up its head, Thy gay, green, flowery tresses shear For him that's dead." "J.W.N." APPENDIX I. LIST OF JEFFERIES' WORKS. (_The Dates of the First Editions only are given._) REPORTING, EDITING AND AUTHORSHIP. John Snow and Co., Ivy Lane; Alfred Bull, Victoria Street, Swindon, 1873. Handbook. A MEMOIR OF THE GODDARDS OF NORTH WILTS. Published by the author, Coate, Swindon, 1873. JACK BRASS, EMPEROR OF ENGLAND. T. Pettit, and Co., 23, Frith Street, Soho, 1873. Pamphlet. THE SCARLET SHAWL. Tinsley Bros., 1874. 1 vol. novel. RESTLESS HUMAN HEARTS. Tinsley Bros., 1875. 3 vols. SUEZ-CIDE. John Snow and Co., Ivy Lane, 1876. Pamphlet. WORLD'S END. Tinsley Bros., 1877. 3 vols. GAME-KEEPER AT HOME. Smith and Elder, 1878. 1 vol.