IN LOVING MEMORY OF WALTER, THE “ALBINO” SON OF ALFRED AND CHARLOTTE BUDD, born Feby. 12th, 1867, died Feby. 18th, 1893. _May God forgive those who forgot their duty to him who was just and afflicted._ _This Cross was erected on the Grave in Shipley Churchyard, and Removed by order of_ H. GORHAM (Vicar). _Two Globe Wreaths placed on the Grave by Friends, and after being there over Two Years were Removed by_ E. ARKLE, Following (Vicar). It seems, then, that this is to the memory of a son of the innkeeper, who committed suicide by drowning, owing to being worried in some local dispute. The Vicar of Shipley appears to have considered some portion of the epitaph to be a reflection upon himself, and consequently, in that Czar-like spirit of autocracy not infrequent in rural clergymen, ordered its removal. The cross was thereupon re-erected here, and is so conspicuous an object, and is attaining such notoriety, that the vicar has probably long since regretted his not allowing it to remain in its original obscurity. A great many efforts have been made by local magnates of one kind and another to secure its removal from this situation, and the innkeeper’s brewers even have been approached for this purpose, but as the innkeeper happens to be also the freeholder, and the house consequently not a “tied” one, the requisite leverage is not obtainable. Although the house looks so modern when viewed from the outside, acquaintance with its quaint parlour reveals the fact that one of the oaken beams is dated 1577, and that the old fireback in the capacious ingle-nook was cast in the year 1622. [Illustration: THE “GEORGE AND DRAGON,” DRAGON’S GREEN.] The “White Bull” at the little Lancashire “town” of Ribchester, which still clings stoutly to the name of town, although it is properly a village, since its inhabitants number but 1,265, has some ancient relics in the shape of Roman columns, now used to support the porch and a projecting wing of the building. They are four in number, of a debased Doric character, and between six and seven feet high. They are said to be remains of the temple of Minerva, once standing in the Roman city of _Coccium_ or _Bremetennacum_ that once stood here, and were fished out of the river Ribble that now gives a name to Ribchester. [Illustration: THE “WHITE BULL,” RIBCHESTER.] The effigy of the White Bull himself, that projects boldly from the front of the house, is a curiosity in its own way, and more nearly resembles the not very meaty breed of cattle found in toy Noah’s Arks, than anything that grazes in modern meadows. From Lancashire to Yorkshire, in quest of inns, we come to the cathedral city of Ripon, and the “Unicorn” Hotel. [Illustration: BOOTS OF THE “UNICORN,” RIPON.]