tty."

The Viva is not written in full; it is represented by a double V, which
overlaps, so that it looks like W, but the letter W is not used by the
Italians, so there is no chance of its being mistaken by them for
anything but the symbol meaning Viva.

A small horn and tortoiseshell snuff-box from Palermo.

It contains three coins wrapped in paper and a piece of the pilgrim's
cross at Varello-Sesia. The cross is mentioned somewhere in Butler's
books as being of very hard wood, so hard that the pilgrims have great
difficulty in cutting pieces off it. So had I in cutting off this bit.

The day after Butler's death Alfred came to me with the coins and said:

"I took these out of his pockets, Sir; I thought you ought to have them."

Butler's watch and chain.

Butler used to possess his grandfather's gold watch and chain. He was
robbed of the watch in Hyde Park one night just before starting on one of
his journeys to Canada; he then bought this silver watch at Benson's,
and, if I remember right, wore it with the gold chain. He was robbed of
the chain in Fetter Lane, Oct. 1893 (_Memoir_, II. 167). He then bought
a silver chain, which, with the silver watch, passed under his will to
Alfred. Alfred wore them until 1919, when the watch was declared by an
expert to be beyond repair. I took it from him, giving him in exchange
the watch of my brother Charlie, who had recently died.

The matchbox which Alfred gave to Butler.

When Alfred knew that I was handing Butler's watch and chain on to St.
John's College, he said:

"And then, Sir, they had better have this matchbox which I gave him."

I looked at it and said, "Well, but Alfred, how can that be? It is dated
1894, and he gave your matchbox to the Turk in 1895."

"I know he did, Sir; and when he told me I was very angry and went out
into Holborn and bought this one and had it engraved same as the other."

"With the old date?"

"Yes, Sir, just the same as the one he gave to the Turk." See the _Note-
Books_, p. 286.

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