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noisy, we interrupted their serious occupation. 

 We tried to induce the two youngsters to desert 

 and go home with us; they had been in that 

 punt for many hours, and we thought they must 

 be very tired of it. Young curly-headed four- 

 year-old had caught several perch and roach, 

 and he shouted "No fear! " when I asked him 

 civilly if he would come home with me, and so 

 we left them in their glory, and made our way 

 into Christchurch Priory. There we were the 

 unbidden witnesses of a very pretty wedding, 

 which interested our girls immensely; but the 

 boys were impatient of that solemn ceremony 

 and wanted to be off up to the top of the tower. 

 The bride was pretty and joyous, and looked up 

 to her new husband as much as to say, " Now 

 I've got you, my boy ! " The husband looked 

 serious as became the occasion. After the cere- 

 mony, which we sat through, was over, we sub- 

 mitted ourselves to the guidance of a learned 

 little man who told us the whole story of that 

 beautiful fabric, and the girls came away crammed 

 full of the details of Norman architecture, whilst 

 the boys climbed a winding staircase and lost 

 themselves. We reached our home at 6.30 in- 

 stead of 1.30, as we had promised, but it mat- 

 tered not there was no one there to receive 

 us. 



We had spent a happy day, which we all 

 mean to remember as long as we live. Mean- 



