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themselves. The lecturer is always surrounded 

 by hundreds of eager and respectful hearers, 

 wondering at the boundless knowledge displayed 

 by him. 



Then there is a grand stand of pierrots charm- 

 ing an innumerable host; during the intervals 

 of time between these performances Master 

 Punch seizes his opportunity, and attracts as 

 great a crowd now as he ever did hundreds of 

 years ago: then a ventriloquist with a pair of 

 grotesque puppets affords much amusement. 

 These are about all the attractions on the sea- 

 shore. Always at five minutes to one these 

 allurements are abandoned; not a soul is left 

 on parade or shore, all have gone home to lunch 

 or dinner. At half-past two or three o'clock they 

 begin to stream forth again, and the morning's 

 performances are repeated. At five minutes to 

 five there is again a clearance, and all Rhyl has 

 gone home to tea ; this takes up an hour more 

 or less, and morning and afternoon's perform- 

 ances are kept up till bedtime. This may be said 

 to be the normal state of things, but a rough, 

 cold, windy or rainy day upsets these delights, 

 and indoor life is not exhilarating. 



This is, briefly, the kind of life as it is lived 

 on the sands of Rhyl. One of the things one 

 cannot help noticing there is the unusual num- 

 ber of pretty, plump, healthy little children, 

 many of them perfect models of happy child- 



