IMPROVING SENTIMENTS 215 



Opposite Noon is the advice, " Whilst we have time, 

 do good." 



" QvuM Tempus Habemus, operemur bonu:\l 



" Life steals away — this hour, man, is lent thee 

 Patient to work the work of Him that sent thee." 



For Evening the admonition is not a little alarming 

 —if taken literally. 



"Redibo. Tu jSTukquam. 

 " Haste, traveller ! the sun is sinking low ; 





He shall return again — but never Thou 



The passing wayfarer might well ask why he should 

 never return along this road I 



The late vicar of Bremhill did these metrical para- 

 phrases of the Latin which led so tragically, l)ut 

 wliose cjualities, as verse, resemble the average of the 

 ordinary Pantomime librettist. 



Maud Heath's charity is still in existence, and is 

 now worth about £120 per annum, a sum amply 

 sufficient for keeping her Causeway in repair. 



XXXVI 



KowDEN Hill, a mile out of Chippenham, on the 

 road to Bath, is a welcome drop down into level land 

 again, and would be enjoyable were it not for the 

 bad surface. It is while wheeling such liills and 

 such road-metal that one appreciates at the full the 

 pluck and endurance of those early cyclists who raced 

 across them in the early seventies, making the pace 

 on the high bicycles of those times as gallantly as 



