it disclosed an array of flags, streamers, and devices, along the
approach to the station, where "the special" was waiting. Prominent
among the devices was 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