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be all right, wind and liinb, for I walked over twenty 

 miles the day before yesterday, and except a blister on 

 one heel, was none the worse 



And again on September 12 : 



Have been very lazy lately, which means that I have 

 done a great many things that I need not have done, and 

 have left undone those which I ought to have done. 

 Nowadays that seems to me to be the real definition of a 

 holiday 



For once he was not doing very much holiday 

 work, though he was filing at the Eede Lecture to 

 get it into shape for publication. The examinations 

 for the Science and Art Department were over, and 

 indeed he writes to Sir M. Foster : 



Don't bother your head about the balance now or 

 hereafter. To tell you the truth I do so little in the 

 Examiner business that I am getting ashamed of taking 

 even the retaining fee, and you will do me a favour if 

 you will ease my conscience. 



A week of fishery business in South Wales and 

 Devon had " a good deal of holiday in it." For the 

 rest 



I have just been put on Senate of University of London 

 [a Crown nomination]. I tried hard to get Lord Granville 

 to let me off in fact I told him I could not attend the 

 meetings except now and then, but there was no escape. 

 I must have a talk with you about what is to be done 

 there. 



Item. There is a new Fishery Commission that I also 

 strongly objected to, but had to cave in so far as I agreed 

 to attend some meetings in latter half of September. 



