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 into his quiet home. The kindness of
the visit was not slight; for the journey, to and fro, from difficulties
of transport, demanded two days. We have the more reason to be grateful
for his willing sacrifice of time, because, in view of the interval since
the last confirmation and of the long sojourn in Wales before us, we
should otherwise have suffered a kind of mitigated excommunication.

June 29th and 30th were the days of the "Old Boys' Match," the annual
reunion of the Past and Present School. There seemed no reason why
absence from our native soil should sever our ties with the Past. Quite
the contrary. _Ubi Caesar ibi patria_, thought our Old Boys, who,
indeed, never before felt so glad to claim their heritage in the fortunes
of Uppingham. The game, which was like other games of cricket, and need
not be described, was played on the Gogerddan field, where the