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A pleasing sign that the schoohnaster is abroad at least in the 

 neighbourhood of Gloucester was evident from the following graceful 

 Latin line, which one of the members saw written up and noted 



down at the time : 



" Viti sini literas Marra ! " 



and that the reader might be under no mistake as to the meaning 

 the translation was given beneath — 



" Life without learning is death." 



Excursion to Uleybubt and Durslet. 

 The fourth excursion of the season to Uleybury and Dursley 

 took place on Tuesday, August 2nd. Eight members only of the 

 Club had sufficient courage to disregard the somewhat unpromising 

 appearance of the morning and start by an early train for Cam, 

 Meeting with an intelligent Scripture reader of the place, who 

 was well acquainted with the history of his village church, the 

 members were shown all the points of interest connected with it. 

 These seemed chiefly to circle round the exterior, for, with the 

 exception of a good early English font and a neat and unob- 

 trusively restored interior, there was nothing particular here to 

 arrest the attention. The massive tower, with its grotesquely 

 carved heads of man and beast in the angle of the buttresses, and 

 its peculiarly plain and solid appearance, seemed to be the oldest 

 portion of the church. Signs of antiquity were not wanting, too, 

 in the churchyard, for the recorded ages of the tenants of the 

 soil were remarkable ; and in one instance it seemed good to Lord 

 Seagrave to erect a memorial to one " Joseph White, of this 

 parish, who died the 12th June, 1837, aged 103 years, to per- 

 petuate so remarkable an instance of longevity." The deeds, too, 

 of one Benedict Perrett, who died at the beginning of the last 

 century, were immortalized in stone at the east end. The square 

 tomb, so common at that time, had sculptured on its south face, a 

 curious dumpy figure dressed in a farmer's smock-frock, standing 

 behind a plough, a long chain apparently on the rebound after 

 great tension, with one of the links detached, and suspiciously 

 near the head of the figure, required explanation : this was at 

 once given. The scene, so said the guide, was intended to re- 



