THE CIVIC JORDAN 



shone in its fullest splendour, distributing enough 

 of its heat among .the wearers of furred robes and 

 cocked-hats to induce a belief that the weather 

 must have been very wintry when our ancestors 

 adopted these habiliments. The main doings 

 consisted of, the conferment by the University of 

 an honorary degree upon the Mayor and Town 

 Clerk ; a thanksgiving service in the Cathedral ; 

 a grand luncheon in the Town Hall; an open-air 

 oration by the Chichele Professor of Modern 

 History ; and an historical pageant. This is not 

 the place for descriptive details of these functions, 

 for is it not all writ elsewhere ? My aim is and 

 has been throughout these autobiographical records 

 to tell of things which neither the historian nor 

 the pressman would probably consider worthy of 

 notice rather than to furnish information to be 

 found in books or newspapers. As it is not 

 chronicled elsewhere, I may state that I devoted 

 all the zeal and devotion of which I was capable, 

 botk as a Mayor and as a Freeman, to doing justice 

 to the various entertainments provided. 



I need hardly say that I took my Mayoral 

 attendant, Jordan, with me when I set forth on 

 my journey, for he would be a bold Mayor of Bath 

 who ventured far afield without such an escort. 

 As it happened, it was fortunate for all concerned 

 that my trusty guardian accompanied me, for, as 

 it turned out, he played a much more useful and 

 conspicuous a part in the day's doings than I did, 

 and will, I am convinced, be remembered in the 

 University City long after I am clean forgotten. 

 But I will not anticipate the narrative must run 

 its course. 



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