I thank you most
heartily in the name of the school and the masters and myself for this
address, which I trust will for ever remain not the least honoured relic
of this school."
The Headmaster sat down again amid much cheering from the audience of
townspeople, to which the small party of boys present found voice to make
no ineffective answer in three salutes 'for Uppingham town.'
* * * * *
CHARLES DICKENS AND EVANS, CRYSTAL PALACE PRESS.
Footnotes:
{12} "Prom. Vinct.," 904.
{19} _The Times_, Friday, April 14th, 1876.
{46} "Fifty Years of my Life," Albemarle, p. 308.
{66} Believers in augury are too seldom confronted with the negative
instance. May we then invite their attention to the following? The
address was published in a paragraph of _The Times_, but the words "under
the same leadership" were omitted. Nevertheless, to the discredit of
omination, under the same leadership the school did return.
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