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proud of him, and so are all his countrymen ! " 

 and there was hearty applause ! 



I saw the coloured lithograph on the staircase 

 wall, and the handsome tent-bedstead upstairs; 

 ergo, I ought to believe; in fact, part of the 

 story is doubtless correct, and the whole of it 

 has the merit of worthy enthusiasm, and of ex- 

 treme inaccuracy. 



Apart from this little Stanley incident, we had 

 a glorious drive, and a mile or two onwards from 

 the " Cross Foxes " we passed through the City 

 of St. Asaph, the smallest "city" in the United 

 Kingdom, and so homeward. 



It was on another occasion that we drove to 

 St. Asaph and visited the beautiful old cathe- 

 dral. As St. Asaph is the smallest city, its 

 cathedral is the smallest of all our cathedrals. 

 Of course, with my usual youthful agility I ran 

 up to the top of the tower, 127 steps, no great 

 height, but as the cathedral is set on a hill the 

 tower commands a very extensive view of fine 

 scenery in every direction, particularly of the Vale 

 of Clwyd; from it was pointed out " The Union " 

 where H. M. Stanley was educated. Some of 

 our young people followed me to the top, others 

 had regard for their knees, and lost the sight. 



On another occasion half a dozen of us 

 mounted a four-horse coach for a peep at Colwyn 

 Bay. We had scarcely got outside the town 

 when we passed by the fragments of another 



