Lord Faversham's famous "Skyrocket" ended his days with much eclat.

When getting into years, and into monstrous obesity, he was presented as a contribution to the Lancashire Relief Fund.

Before passing into the butcher's hands, he was exhibited in Leeds, and realised about 200 pounds as a show.
Thus as a curiosity first, and as a small mountain of fat beef afterward, he proved a generous gift to the suffering operatives in the manufacturing districts.
Passing through the park gate, we entered upon a lawn esplanade looking down upon the ruins of Rievaulx Abbey.

This broad terrace extended for apparently a half of a mile, and was as finely carpeted piece of ground as you will find in England.

No hair of horse or dog groomed and brushed with the nicest care, and soft and shining with the healthiest vitality, could surpass in delicacy and life of surface the grass coverlet of this long terrace, from which you looked down upon that grand monument of twelfth-century architecture half veiled among the trees of the glen.