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MEETING AT G R AI GYP WLL-D DU, 



July 18th, 1867. 



Thursday last was the day appointed for an extra meeting of th» 

 ■Woolhope Club at the beautiful waterfall of Graig-y-pwll-ddu, in Radnorshire, 

 between Boughrood and Erwood. On this occasion many ladies had been in- 

 vited, and the weather was looked forward to with some anxiety. "You will 

 never be able to go on with 'Ladies'-days,'" said the energetic manager of 

 a neighbouring Field Club ; " we had them at one time, but the weather was 

 invariably wet, and we were obliged to give them up." This lugubrious pro- 

 phecy never seemed more likely to be fulfilled. It had rained heavily the day 

 before, it poured in the night, the barometer was falling, and now heavy clouds, 

 with loose scattered edges, hung over the sky, and seemed ready to scatter their 

 contents at any moment. It was certainly a day for prudent people to stay at 

 home, but then prudent people so constantly have to do so. The committee 

 could take no prudential motives into consideration. They were to meet al fresco 

 at the Moorfield Station at 9.10 a.m., according to programme, and at 9.10 

 a.m. they were there, with true English perseverance and pernacity. They 

 were not left long alone, however, for members began to arrive, and ladies, yes, 

 ladies ! in twos and threes, called for their attentions. WTien the train left 

 the station "Twenty-eight tickets wanted for the Hereford party," was the 

 message telegraphed by the clerk to the Three Cocks Junction. 



Our excursion again follows the course of 



Pllnlimmon's fairest child, 

 The peerless Wye. 



but we are actually off without "transacting the business" — of course the 

 committee this — they elected unanimously six new members, good men and 

 true, to wit : The Rev. T. B. Beavan, Much Birch ; the Rev. D. P. Capper, 

 Lystone Court; R. Harcourt Capper, Esq., Northgate, St, 'Weonards; Edwd. 



