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T he time had now expired, the whistle began to blow continuously and 

 frantically, and all made their way quickly to the upper regions. Here the 

 kind people who sacrificed themselves so uuselOshly for the general benefit, had 

 got all the valuables re-transmitted to their hampers, and leaving the ground 

 Btrewed with the bottles whose spirits of sparkling Moselle, of sparkling 

 Burgundy, or of Seltzer had departed, hands were readily given to the baskets, 

 and all marched off for the train. It stopped specially near the Fall to take 

 the company up again. The engine whistle shrieked loudly for some minutes 

 and with wonderful effect, for there was little delay, and yet, so far as is known, 

 none were left behind — though a hat or two and a coat could not be found. 



The railway carriages thoroughly heated by the sun made the short run 

 to Brecon, the most trying part of the day, but it soon passed, and the visitors 

 were left in pleasurable contentment at the successive stations where they had 

 been taken up. 



Edward Stone, Esq., of Chambers Court, Worcestershire, an active 

 member of the Malvern Naturalists' Club, was very desirous of expressing 

 his great sense of the admirable arrangements for the day. They were certainly 

 due for the kind co-operation of the several railway authorities over whose 

 lines the club passed ; and particularly must they here be expressed to "Wm. 

 Banks, Esq., of Pont-y-wal Hall, the Chairman of the Brecon and Neath 

 Company, and the active manager, Mr. Morley, for the train they had put on 

 specially for the convenience of the club, and also for the kind personal superin- 

 tendance they both of them gave to ensure the comfort of the members and 

 their visitors. 



