occasion on which we were thankful for
the school's self-imposed limit of numbers. The completion of this poor
structure was a fact of which those who have but little knowledge of
school affairs will appreciate the value. It was a new burden on an
embarrassed exchequer, but not a gratuitous one. It is not too much to
say that the social life of the school would have been of a different and
lower stamp, and its organisation crude and ineffective, if there had
been no place of assembly where we could meet for common occasions, for
roll-call, prayers, addresses, lectures, entertainments--no place to
furnish the visible unity, which is so large an influence in a healthy
social life. And did the school ever feel surer of its oneness, or more
proud of its name, than when it sat on those rude benches within the
ruder walls of their makeshift great school-room?

The next day, May 1st, is the Uppingham Encoenia, the commemoration of
the Chapel opening. It forced one to contrast the wooden walls in which
the Saint's-day's service was held, with the high rooftree and the deep
buttresses, which this year would not echo the chanting procession. The
anniversary rites lapsed of necessity. An accidental piece of ceremony
marked this day; for that morning a flagstaff was erected on the terrace
in front of the hotel, and a flag run up, by the lowering of which the
hour of dinner or roll-call could be signalled to ramblers on the shore
or the hill. On the 19th of the month we hoisted with much cheering our
own colours: a banner, on which some of the ladies had worked the
Founder's device, the antique schoolmaster and his ring of scholars. The
flags (there were three in all) were carried home with us, and the faded
and tattered folds which had fought with the sou'-wester, now droop in a
graceful canopy at one end of the great school-room.

By the middle of June the new church of Borth, so opportunely built in
time for our settlement, was declared ready. It was courteously placed
at our disposal for two services on Sunday before the hours of the parish
services. The building exactly held us, with a little pinching. The
first occasion of our using it was a confirmation held by the Bishop of
St. David's. The Bishop, whose early connections are with this
neighbourhood, and who had already in his capacity of landowner given us
proof of his goodwill, seemed to rejoice in the occasion of expressing
his sympathy with the immigrants in