Thus we managed things even better than if we had listened to another
ingenious writer, with whose proposal we will close this topic. It was
this: "Let two hundred bathing-machines be brought together from
Llandudno and other watering-places within reach, and ranged along the
beach. Let one machine be assigned to each boy, and let them be filled
up with book-shelves, table, chairs, &c. Thus the whole difficulty will
be solved in a moment. And the plan has this further advantage, that
when the time comes for returning to Uppingham, the bathing-machines
would be simply formed in line, and driven across the country to
Rutlandshire, and all further trouble in the way of furniture-vans and
families-removing be cut away at one stroke."




CHAPTER VII.--THE COMMISSARIAT.


_To feed were best at home_.

MACBETH.

[Greek verse]

ILIAD IX.

PRINCE HENRY. _Doth it not show vilely in me to desire small beer_?

POINS. _Why_, _a prince should not be so loosely studied as to
remember so weak a composition_.