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and the same thing was repeated at each of the other 

 tables. The vice-master having then filled a large glass 

 at his side from the dish, and I, at his suggestion, having 

 done the same, the great dish was pushed down the table 

 to guest after guest, each following our example. Wait 

 ing to see what was to follow, I presently observed a 

 gentleman near me dipping his napkin into his glass and 

 vigorously scrubbing his face and neck with it, evidently 

 to cool himself off after dinner; this was repeated with 

 more or less thoroughness by others present; and then 

 came a musical grace after meat the non nobis, Domine 

 wonderfully given by the choir. In the combination 

 room, afterward, I met most agreeably Mr. Trevelyan, 

 M.P., a nephew of Macaulay, who has written an ad 

 mirable biography of his uncle. 



December 6. 



Dined at Trinity College as the guest of Aldis Wright, 

 and met a number of interesting men, among them Ma- 

 haffy, the eminent professor of Greek at Trinity College, 

 Dublin. Both he and Wright told excellent stories. 

 Among those of the latter was one of a Scotchwoman who, 

 on being informed of the change made by the revisers in 

 the Lord s Prayer, namely, &quot;and deliver us from the 

 evil one,&quot; said, &quot;I doot he 11 be sair uplifted.&quot; Ma- 

 haffy gave droll accounts of Whately, Archbishop of Dub 

 lin. One of these had as its hero a country clergyman 

 who came to ask Whately for a living which had just 

 become vacant. The archbishop, thinking to have a little 

 fun with his guest, said, &quot;Of course, first of all, I must 

 know what your church politics are : are you an attitudi- 

 narian, a latitudinarian, or a platitudinarian?&quot; To which 

 the parson replied, * Thank God, your Grace, I am not an 

 Arian at all at all, if that ? s what ye mane. The point 

 of this lay in the fact that among the charges con 

 stantly made by the High-church party against Whately 

 was that of secret Unitarianism. But the reply so amused 

 Whately that he bestowed the living on the old parson at 



