" HILLS " 67 



on St Catherine's Hill. They were doubtless there in 

 the dim ages of the past when a Celtic tribe occupied 

 the situation ; in the days when King Cnut made over 

 the hill to the good monks of St Swithun ; when 

 pilgrims toiled up the mount to pay their vows at 

 the shrine of St Catherine and perhaps to do penance 

 amid the perplexities of the maze. There they have 

 blossomed, season after season, since William of Wyke- 

 ham founded his famous school, and generation after 

 generation of college men have gone " on Hills." And 

 there, it may be, in spite of the multiplication of military 

 camps around Winchester, they will continue to flourish 

 for long years yet to come ; and the swifts will return 

 every May and shriek around the hill-top as of yore, and 

 the peewits utter their wailing cry from the fallows 

 below, while overhead the kestrel will hover with out- 

 stretched wings, in search of the little field-mice whose 

 burrows run in every direction beneath the turf of the 

 famous hill. 



