s the motto, _Au revoir_. For the feeling it spoke,
all were grateful; but not all rejoiced in the occasion of it. The train
moved out of the station with the school, to a boy, on board of it, to
the sound of a farewell cheer, and so the curtain fell on the first act
of the play.

CHAPTER X.--A WINTER CAMPAIGN.

_Sanitas sanitation, omnia sanitas_.

_The farmer vext packed up his beds and chairs_,
_And all his household stuff_, _and with his boy_
_Betwixt his knees_, _his wife upon the tilt_,
_Sets forth_, _and meets a friend_, _who hails him_, "_What_!
_You're flitting_!" "_Yes_, _we're flitting_," _says the ghost_
(_For they had packed the thing among the beds_).
"_Oh_, _well_," _says he_, "_you flitting with us too_--
_Jack_, _turn the horses' heads and home again_."

TENNYSON, "WALKING TO THE MAIL."

September 15th and 16th were the days of the school's return to Borth. We
slipped at once and easily into the groove of last term's routine,
filling our old quarters and several additional houses. Some building
operations needed for the winter's sojourn have been mentioned by
anticipation. Our medical officer, also, and the ready pickaxe of
"Sanitary Tom" (as the boys called the navvy who was his stout ally), had
been at work laying bare the subterranean geography of our premises and
making all right. At his instance, the proprietor ran out an extended
culvert into the sea beyond low-water mark, a grand engineering work,
which remains the one permanent monument of our settlement. Having in
mind some ancient aspersions on the wholesomeness of Borth we are glad to
bear testimony to the present adequate sanitation of the place.

We do not write for the scientific, and yet we must notice (we hope
without wounding an unprofessional ear) the beautiful economy of natural
forces by which that sanitation is effected. The channel of the Lery,
between which and the sea the hotel is built, runs parallel to the
coastline, till it meets at right angles the estuary of the Dovey. The
same tide which washes the beach also fills the Lery channel and the
adjoining ditches. When the ebb has set in the water in the latter
stands for a time at a higher level than on the beach. Reflecting on
this, our engineers cut a duct between the Lery and the sea, so as to
draw the water from the river down the main drainage artery, performing
twice daily a most effective flushing.

Some of us wou