And so Haworth races were stopped, and have never been resumed to this day.

Even now the memory of this good man is held in reverence, and his faithful ministrations and real virtues are one of the boasts of the parish.
But after his time, I fear there was a falling back into the wild rough heathen ways, from which he had pulled them up, as it were, by the passionate force of his individual character.

He had built a chapel for the Wesleyan Methodists, and not very long after the Baptists established themselves in a place of worship.

Indeed, as Dr.Whitaker says, the people of this district are "strong religionists;" only, fifty years ago, their religion did not work down into their lives.

Half that length of time back, the code of morals seemed to be formed upon that of their Norse ancestors.