124 WAYFARING NOTIONS 



guards at the stations — gentlemen all are these 

 patient, dutiful, public servants, and good to chat 

 with. You can have a word at two or three 

 more stations before you reach the last hill-crest 

 after passing Beachy Head new lighthouse, 

 which, you know, is not the one on the high land 

 up by where Eastbourne races used to be held, 

 but a later beacon-house set down on iron piles 

 under the face of the cliff. At first sight you 

 would scarcely believe what is fact — viz., that its 

 lowlier situation is better than the lofty one, 

 because the spray and mist do not tell so greatly 

 against the light's carrying powers. 



