s close. The resonance from the surrounding
buildings made the songs very effective for an outdoor entertainment.

_Surgit amari aliquid_. Just at this time came news of a new fever case
at Uppingham. We knew what might be the significance of the news, and
began to make up our minds for another term at Borth.

On July 5th a public concert was given by the choir, and attended by the
rest of the school, at Aberystwith. It was the second of two given in
support of the new church at Borth, to the debt on which the proceeds
were devoted. The first was held in the Assembly Room of the Queen's
Hotel, a beautiful room, with fine acoustic properties. We cannot say as
much for the Temperance Hall, in which the second was given. It is a
structure of the very severest Georgian architecture. "Why," asks a
reporter, "should water-drinkers allow it to be supposed that the graces
of art are all in the hands of Bacchus?" The journey to and fro by rail
was, in the popular estimate, an integral part of the entertainment; its
charm lay in the uncertainty as to whether the laden train would be able
to climb the abrupt incline to Langfihangel, or would keep on the rickety
rails as it spun down the same curve in returning. Otherwise, that the
school should make a railway journey _en masse_ to hold an evening
concert seemed, under our nomad conditions, to be only in the common
course of things.

One concert we held in the wooden school-room on the 22nd of May; on that
occasion (we quote the magazine's reporter) "All the members of the choir
might be seen flocking to the school-room, with candle and candlestick in
hand, to furnish light for the performance. The candles were arranged in
sevens on wooden shelves all down the sides of the room, and though the
whole spectacle had its laughable side, as most things have, the general
effect was far from bad. It was cheerful enough; in fact, only a
Christmas-tree and some more disorder was needed to turn the
entertainment into as good an imitation of a happy school-treat as you
would get at a day's notice." But the music sounded dully in the timber
walls, and the experiment was not repeated.

Meanwhile a new inroad of care had for the last fortnight, since the late
news from Uppingham, disquieted the colony. Major Tulloch, a Government
Inspector, who, on behalf of the Local Sanitary Board, had reported on
the state of the town of Uppingham, had expressed a strong opinion that
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