An Autobiography of an Ancient Athlete & Antiquarian

160 AUTOBIOGRAPHY marms, who were afterwards entertained to a dismal teetotal meal. At the end of this month I went into the Rockland Bo~rd Fishery rights at the instance of Mr. E. Reeve, and on the 6th May went over the locus in quo with bim, going by motor-boat and walking back. The next day (8th) the case came on before the Swainsthorpe Bench, and Mr. Justice Lindley, the Chairman, had the oppor– tunity of practically reversing the decision he had come to against us in the Hickling case years before, for he decided in favour of the public right of fishing, chiefly on the ground that there was an undoubted rise and fall of the tide to a degree which could not possibly have been caused by the dribble of fresh water which came into it through a little drain, as contended by Mr. Hornor, the agent of Sir Charles Rich, the alleged "broad owner.'' This had been, of course, our contention in the Hickling case. I was not called to present the documentary evidence in our favour, which was very strong, and which I afterwards recapitu– lated in a letter to the q Daily Press." Until May I practised archery assiduously, but did nothing until the 16th, when I made 26 bits for n4. I could not approach this, however, at the Wood Norton Meeting on the 19th, nor at the Beeston Meeting on the 25th. nor at our own Meeting on 2nd June. On the 29th I inspected but could not endorse an alleged Saxon discovery at Flordon Church. · The 4th.June was one of the hottest days I remember. I cycled over to Aylsham and just missed a very heavy storm, the lightning striking a man when I was there. I then met the Norwich Science Gossip Club at Burgh Mound, and they straggled back very tired owing to the mendacious statement made by the Secretary as to the distance to Lammas, about 60 sitting down to tea at my cottage. At Whitsuntide, R.H. and H.G.R. came to the cottage, the latter, who had been shooting very well in London, where he was Captain of the Marylebone Rifle Club,~ got four rabbits shot through the head in the Hautbois Pit. I shot worse than ever on the roth at the Beeston Athletic Club Meeting, almost as bad as at Swanton Morley and again at Beeston. * His score at IO consecutive shoots in 1909 was 978 out of a possible r,ooo. He is now very appropriately shooting more seriously .as a lieutenant iu the Royal Garrison Artillery.