s. Ordinary "sick-room"
accommodation was soon obtained by paying for it, but a fever hospital
was also a requirement which, with our experiences, we were not likely to
forget, and this was less easy to secure. We had to scour the
neighbourhood, knocking at the door of many a farmhouse and country
homestead, before we were provided.

The house-room being secured, came the labour of furnishing; the
distribution of tables, benches, bookshelves, &c, for the class-rooms,
and of furniture (in many cases a minimum) for the needs of masters and
their families; the ticketing of the bed-room doors, the beds, the chests
of drawers, and each drawer in them, with the name of the occupant--with
many like minutiae, which it took longer to provide than it does to
detail them. The task was not rendered easier by being shared in part
with our hosts, who had hardly taken the measure of our requirements. It
became necessary at the last moment to telegraph to the Potteries for a
large consignment of bed-room ware, which, in spite of protestations, had
been laid in only in half quantities. The world of school has marched
forward since the days when three or four basins sufficed for the toilet
of a dozen boys.

While the elementary needs of the colony were being attended to, its more
advanced wants were not neglected. There were those whom the anxiety of
providing for the school amusements, and in particular its cricket,
suffered not to sleep. We believe that the first piece of school
property which arrived on the scene was the big roller from the cricket-
field. Resolved to gather no moss in inglorious ease at home, it had
mounted a North-Western truck, and travelled down to Bow Street station,
where it was to disembark for action. It cost the Company's servants a
long struggle to land it, but once again on terra firma it worked with a
will and achieved wonders, reducing a piece of raw meadow land in a few
weeks' space to a cricket-field which left little to be desired. This
meadow lay within a few hundred yards of Bow Street station, four miles
by rail from Borth. It is the property of Sir Pryse Pryse, of Gogerddan,
who gave the school the use of it at a peppercorn rent.

This was but one of the many acts of unreserved generosity shown by this
gentleman to the school. It is not often that the opportunity offers of
winning so much and such hearty gratitude as our neighbour of Gogerddan
has won by his prompt liberality; still l