CHAPTER XXVI 



Some Personal Happenings A Double-Barrelled Official A Vanish- 

 ing Secretary A Happy Incident A Halt on Life's Highway. 



IN * the year 1910 the Bath and West Society 

 accepted a very cordial invitation from the 

 City of Bath to hold its Annual Show there 

 in 1912. In November of 1911 the Bath Corpora- 

 tion had to elect a chief magistrate for the ensuing 

 twelvemonth, and their selection is thus chronicled 

 in the report of the Bath and West Society's 

 Council, presented to the annual general meeting 

 of members in the following May : 



" The Council cannot conclude their report 

 without some reference to a very kindly and 

 graceful act on the part of the citizens of Bath, 

 who selected as their Chief Magistrate for the year 

 of the show, and the first year of ' Greater Bath ' 

 with its extended boundary, the permanent official 

 representative of the Society. The Council regard 

 this as a very happy indication of the feeling of 

 the city towards the old Society and of the desire 

 of the former to still further cement the friend- 

 ship so long existing between the two bodies. 

 This has since been emphasized by the cordiality 

 shown in connection with the present exhibition 

 by both the city and its neighbourhood." 



On two or three occasions previous I had 

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