An Autobiography of an Ancient Athlete & Antiquarian

AUTOBIOGRAPHY 185 the lampreys which were plentiful the Sunday before) at the " Mitre." All the spring was bitterly cold-a bitter blizzard and snow on the 5th April being specially miserable. I got the targets up on the IIth April, but didn't shoot for some time, not until the 1st May, when I tried to teach my daughter Kitty to shoot at 50. The selection of the new Librarian of the Norwich Public Library was a very laborious job for the Sub-Com– mittee, of which I was one, as there were over 100 applications, but we eventually hit on the right man, Mr. Geo. A. Stephen, a trained and certificated librarian, who has done wonders for us since in the re-organisation of the Library. On the 11th and 12th Purdy and I bad a pleasant little outing to Lynn and Boston (" Boston Stump "), and its height and beauty impressed us immensely, as there is nothing like it in Norfolk, and we found the " Peacock" a dingy but comfortable house, with good food and super– excellent port. The Church is simply magnificent, but the town itself is very ugly and most uninteresting. On the 16th I went over the "Abbot's Hall" at Aylsham, owned by Mr. P. Shephead, and the ruins, or rather site, of Iugworth Castle, but the spring brought to me a series of bad colds, and when the archery season began on the 22nd May I was so weak I could not send the arrows up even to the 60. On the Tuesday I had been using the "Pultogen '' or clever American (?) vibratory machine, which loosened my muscles a bit, for I bad a good ride by Crostwick, Rack– heath, to Woodbastwick and Horning Ferry, the best ride I had had for a long while. On the 26th I put up several houses in Norwich for sale by auction, but there were no bidders for them, or anything else put up. The Radical tactics had frightened away all buyers, as indeed they were probably meant to do. Our Archery meeting at Lammas went off very well, but not for me. On 3 rst May, I went over Caister Camp, the largest Roman Camp in England, at the invitation of the owner, the Rev. John Warren Corbould-Warren, who would feel inclined to allow excavations, if the tenant were compensated, if all expenses were paid, and if all the