300 LIFE OF PROFESSOR HUXLEY CHAP. XII 



page, as it is Welsh ; however it is probably that or some- 

 thing like it. I forgot to inquire. 



We are having the loveliest weather, and yesterday 

 went looking up weirs with more or less absurd passes up 

 a charming valley not far hence. It is just seven o'clock, 

 and we are going to breakfast and start at eight to fit in 

 with the tides of the Severn. It is not exactly clear 

 where we shall be to-night. . . . Now I must go to break- 

 fast, for I got up at six. Figurez vous fa.. 



May 29 Hereford. We are favoured by the weather 

 again, though it is bitter cold under the bright sunshine. 

 We stopped at Worcester yesterday, and I went to examine 

 some weirs hard by. This involved three or four miles' 

 country walking, and was all to the good. If the Inspector 

 business were all of this sort it would be all that fancy 

 painted it We shall have a long sitting to-day. ... [He 

 fears to be detained into the night by " over-fluent 

 witnesses."] 



In April he spent several days at Norwich, in 

 connection with the National Fishery Exhibition held 

 there. 



April 19. We had a gala day yesterday. . . . The 

 exhibition of all manner of fish and fishing apparatus was 

 ready, for a wonder, and looked very well The Prince 

 and Princess arrived, and we had the usual address and 

 reply and march through. Afterwards a mighty de'jetiner 

 in the St. Andrew's Hall a fine old place looking its best. 

 I was just opposite the Princess, and I could not help 

 looking at her with wonderment. She looked so fresh 

 and girlish. She came and talked to me afterwards in a 

 very pleasant simple way. 



Walpole and I went in with our host yesterday after- 

 noon and started to return on the understanding that he 

 should pick us up a few miles out. Of course we took 

 the wrong road, and walked all the way, some eight miles 



