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Orgueil Castel understood their business when they fixed on 

 the site, and they did the site justice in the building. As 

 Prynne wrote in wretched doggerel, 



"Mont Orgueil is a noble pile." 

 His poetry is shocking, but truthful. Our friend, the 

 Secretary, who had told us all about Elizabeth Castle in the 

 morning, now took chatge of us and conducted us round, over, 

 under, outside and inside the Castle. We persevered and saw 

 everything, and as we were looking our worst after our efforts, 

 the photographer of the Societe Jersiaise mustered us to have 

 a group taken. By some means known only to him, he made 

 us look as if we had had notice of the event, especially the 

 ladies, and later endeared himself to us by sending each of us 

 a photographic reminiscence of a very pleasant day. We felt 

 we were taken at a disadvantage. We had provided none of 

 these attractions, and we had to comfort ourselves with the 

 thought that we had been the first to organise these excur- 

 sions, and the Jerseyites were determined to go one better on 

 ns. " Fas est ab hoste doceri," as we used to have to construe 

 at school. Our next move was to Gouray Lodge, where 

 Dr. and Mrs. Crallan had invited us to see their gardens and 

 take tea with them. Again our Botanists were wanting, 

 and worse still our Entomologist had failed us, and we felt 

 the mere. lay member could not do adequate justice to the 

 beautiful gardens and grounds or to the magnificent collection 

 of Lepidoptera shown to us. Crestfallen we had to confess 

 Jersey was ahead of us in the minor (?) sciences, and almost 

 felt that we had been taken a mean advantage of in showing 

 us these treasures when we had no savant in the party to tell 

 us afterwards : " Oh, we have all these in Guernsey and many 

 other species which they have not." The evening was spent 

 at the Town Hall, (Jersey is quite up to date, no Town 

 Schools, Vauvert Hall or makeshift for them), with a most 

 interesting explanation by Dr. Marett of the nature of the 

 Cotte de St. Brelade, followed by an exhibition of lantern 

 slides of old Jersey " bits," obviously the result of years of 

 search. We have as interesting "bits" in Guernsey, but no 

 one has collected them together as Mr. Piquet has. Happy 

 thought, an excellent subject for a winter session meeting. A 

 set of our Transactions, which had been carefully hidden 

 from prying eyes, was at this stage of the proceedings 

 presented to our confreres by Colonel de Guerin in a suitable 

 speech, and then the light died down, as it has to by law in 

 these days of excursions and alarums, and we wended our 

 way home by the darkest streets known to history. 



