WON BY A NECK 



Oxfordshire Society, who regretted his inability 

 to be present as he had to be on the County Bench 

 that morning. He very kindly promised, how- 

 ever, that if, after the meeting had assembled, I 

 was still of the opinion it would be a close thing, 

 and would send a note to that effect to him at 

 the County Hall, which was within a short distance 

 of the Town Hall, where the Committee met, he 

 would leave the Bench and come up to vote. 

 As I looked round the meeting, it did not take 

 me long to realize the necessity of dispatching a 

 messenger post-haste to the County Hall. Pend- 

 ing the election of a new secretary, I was still 

 responsible for the discharge of the duties, so, 

 with one eye upon the door, I dallied a good deal 

 over preliminaries, including the reading of the 

 minutes, over which I lingered as though loath to 

 part with them. Still, there was no response to my 

 note, and I was nearingthe end of my procrastinat- 

 ing resources, and the division was imminent, when, 

 to my intense relief , the cause of my delay suddenly 

 appeared in the doorway, just in time to turn the 

 scale for Rew, who was elected by a single vote. 



His after-career furnished the amplest justifica- 

 tion for those of us who promoted his candidature. 

 After a most successful association with the 

 Oxfordshire Society, he became secretary of the 

 Central Chamber of Agriculture, migrating thence 

 bo the Board of Agriculture, where, as everybody 

 knows, he occupies with much distinction an 

 important position as Sir R. H. Hew, K.C.B. So 

 I have the satisfaction of feeling that 1 did a good 

 turn for my old Society when I sent that urgent 

 note to the County Hall. 



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