18 A COLLECTING TRIP 
hotel and when we got through Frank Barbour tele- 
phoned us from Conway and wanted us to be sure 
and stay with Milne (his brother), as he was stay- 
ing there. We had breakfast this morning at ten 
and afterwards we took a closed carriage, as it was 
pouring rain, and did a few errands. We bought 
a book ealled ‘‘ Views of Dublin,’’ and then went to 
West & Co.’s, the most fascinating old silver shop 
you ever imagined. There we bought three marrow 
spoons, perfect peaches, two muffineers, simply won- 
ders, and one large gravy spoon, really a_ beauty. 
We shall send these when we send back my coat. 
You never saw such wonderful things as were to be 
seen there. Oh, I forgot to say that we got a pie 
knife with an ivory handle dyed green. There was 
also a Sheffield plate potato ring, numerous spoons 
like grandma’s with the old hall marks and the old 
erests on the back; silver salvers, a coffee pot, which 
just matches our set, but we decided we would not 
get it; old shoe buckles, and a perfectly wonderful 
thing which I know would have taken your eye, a 
silver cruet stand, holding two odd eut glass bottles 
with silver tops, oil and vinegar cruets, two muffi- 
neers (silver) and a large muffineer for sugar, also 
silver; it was really a beauty, but we refrained from 
that also. Next we went to St. Patrick’s cathedral, 
a very old one, built in 1190. It was very interest- 
ing; we saw the stalls where the old knights used to 
sit, with the helmets above each stall and the old 
flags above them; then we saw two very old stones 
which marked the site of St. Patrick’s well. These 
were dug up in 1901, while rebuilding part of the 
cathedral, and their date is 900 A. D. Then we drove 
