(Laughter and cheers.) He should, however, know where to send
his convalescent patients in future. He should recommend them to take
the first train, and spend a week on the sands at Borth, with an
occasional dip in the Neptune Baths. (Loud laughter and cheers.) Three
cheers were given for the ladies of Uppingham School, and the assembly
separated after singing the National Anthem.
HOW WE CAME BACK TO UPPINGHAM.
(_From the_ SCHOOL MAGAZINE.)
(_Signifer, statue signum, hic manebimus optime_.)
Who has not known the moment when, as he looked on some familiar
landscape, its homely features and sober colouring have suddenly, under
some chance inspiration of the changing sky, become alive with an
unexpected beauty: its unambitious hills take on them the dignity of
mountains, its woods and streams swell and broaden with a majesty not
their own. Though, perhaps, it is their own, if Nature, like Man, is
most herself when seen in her best self; if her brightest moments are her
truest.
Shall we be thought fanciful if we confess that we felt something of this
same kind when, returning from a year-long exile, in the last gleams of a
bright May evening we turned the corner of the High Street of Uppingham,
and came face to face with our welcome.
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