An Autobiography of an Ancient Athlete & Antiquarian

186 A UTOBIOG RAPHY rec;ults were handed to him, all of which conditions were of course impossible, for the deep spade digging of 4c acres would alone have cost a fortuue. All this summer I was trying (and failing) to shoot. On the 7th June I met Mrs. Lyon-Campbell, the daughter of Lowe of Colchester, the great Roman antiquary, at a garden party at Aylsham. At the East Dereham meeting at Seaming Grange, I only got as far as the 80 target with my last shot, but curiously enough did fairly well at 60, getting most golds (s) and 3rd gold sweep. D.M.R. came down fora few days in June but we were both very gouty and foot-sore, and my experience up the "Great Wheel" at Yarmouth was a nauseating one. Just as I had shot respectably at 80 at the Smallburgh meeting, a pouring rain set in and spoiled what little chance I had. Coronation day at Lammas on the 2nd July was rather amusing, especially the helping at the dinner, the rural sports and the stately dancing to a dulcimer. Afterwards •I rode up to Skeyton Hill to see the Norwich Bonfire, but only a. small glow was visible. Possibly the letter I wrote to the " Daily Press" on the threatened confiscation by Lloyd George may be worth reproducing here, as I fancy it puts the situation fairly clearly:- To the Editor. Srn,-The proposition that landlords should, while remain– ing liable for rates, taxes, and repairs, and in many cases to mortgage interests, be unable to collect any rent for a lengthened period, is so grossly unfair that I can hardly believe that even the present Government will be able to make it into law. For the first time in English history the owner of house property is marked out for plunder solely because he has been foolish enough to invest his capital in houses instead of other securities. If it were suggested that the butcher or the baker, who has hitherto supplied the out-of-work labourer, should be compelled to continue serving him for nothing for the best part of a year, the absurdity would be so self-evident that it would be howled down. But just. because one investor deals in bricks and mortar and the other in beef or bread, he is to suffer and the other go free. Of course, the proposition is really the thin end of the wedge, by which all separate property in houses and lands is to be abolished. How seriously it aud the other policy of the