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Skrine, John Huntley, 1848-1923

"Uppingham by the Sea a Narrative of the Year at Borth"

They will
possess more worthily the good which an elder race foresaw and laboured
not all unworthily to preserve. To their safe keeping we commend as
under a seal, the legacy of hopes which are better left unspoken now.


APPENDIX.

HOW WE LEFT BORTH.

(_From_ "_The Cambrian News_.")
On Tuesday evening, April 10, the inhabitants of Borth, almost to a man,
turned out to take part in a farewell demonstration to the masters and
scholars of Uppingham School, after their twelve months' residence in
Wales. Shortly after seven o'clock a procession of the inhabitants was
formed, and, headed by a flag-bearer, made its way to the square in front
of the Cambrian Hotel, where several songs were sung by the assembly
under the schoolmaster's (Mr. Jones's) direction; and at the conclusion a
hearty round of cheers was given for the Uppingham School, who
immediately responded by making the place ring again with three
enthusiastic cheers for Borth. The assembly then adjourned to the wooden
building in the hotel-yard, when Mr. Jones, Brynowen, was voted to the
chair on the proposition of Mr.


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