PROCEEDINGS OF THE COTTESWOLD CLUB I9I 



" What do you think of that for the Knight of Ehnore 

 to spend the night in ? for Sir WilHam and I slept in this 

 inn when we were here last year ! " — a place, it occurred 

 to me that the Knight of Elmore would not have put his 

 dogs into, if he could have helped it. I believe he tried to 

 get some amelioration by giving the landlady a hint that he 

 was " somebody " when he was at home : though I don't 

 know that he told her he was President of a learned 

 society. All that he got by it, however, was a heavy bill 

 in the morning : and a hint to the man who drove the 

 visitors, to be sure and charge them enough, as they were 

 " distingues " foreigners, well able to pay ! a hint upon 

 which he faithfully acted. 



It is, however, mainly in our innumerable country walks 

 in Gloucestershire that William Lucy's memory is en- 

 shrined to me : hours of quiet conversation, in which his 

 singularly gentle and unobtrusive manner has left a mark 

 that no time can efface — walks generally refreshed by a 

 quiet cup of tea at some roadside inn, or cottage : or it 

 might be at a friend's house en route — such as Anthony 

 Fewster's at Nailsworth : Bussage House : or the Rectory 

 at Littledean, or the like. 



And now I must ask the Members of the Club to for- 

 give me for the light style in which I have written of 

 men dear to us all, and of each of whom, in turn, we 

 are forced to say : " We ne'er shall look upon his like 

 again ! " Most of them have crossed the dark river whose 

 banks we too are nearing, and their memory, both in what 

 they did rightly and in what they fell short, should impress 

 us with the thought : " Whatsoever thine hand findeth to 

 do, do it with thy might : for there is no knowledge or 

 device in the grave whither thou goest." 



Mr Colchester-Wemyss was elected President in Mr 

 Lucy's place, and the other officers of the Club were 

 re-elected. 

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