been specially engaged to superintend the arrangements, 

 and she discharged her duty with the utmost skill and 

 satisfaction. The tables were tastefully decorated with 

 flowers and usefully adorned with a plentiful supply of 

 very fine strawberries. The guests numbered about a 

 hundred. The school children and the villagers were 

 regaled with tea in the rectory grounds. Evening ser- 

 vice was commenced at six o'clock. The church was 

 crowded, and the preacher was the Rev. J. Parr. Mrs. 

 Morrison played the harmonium at both services.' 



It need only be added that the chancel has weathered 

 well during the forty-seven years that have passed since 

 its restoration, and has been further beautified by the 

 filling of the other windows with good stained glass, in 

 memory of relatives of the late rector. In i8ya an 

 organ of singularly beautiful tone was added the work 

 of Messrs. Bishop and Starr. It has only one manual 

 (besides pedals), and for many years my father intended 

 to add one or two more ; but in the end he decided that 

 a three-manual organ would be liable to become a diffi- 

 culty in a village church, owing to the rarity of good 

 organists, and diverted the fund which he had intended 

 for this purpose to the provision of an organ for the 

 chapel of Weymouth College. His decision was justi- 

 fied by the experience of the many years during which 

 my mother acted as organist ; for probably neither she 

 nor the village schoolmistress who succeeded her could 

 have done justice to a larger organ and the fine tone 



