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children, but not onc of herself. “1 don't like seeing about the place,” she said. “T have a friend who gets every photo. of mc pub- lished, and puts them

m her rooms. I haven’t been to sce her for some time.

It made me quite wretched when 1 last called ; there was | “weeping T in her bed- room, ‘mad’ in her dining-room, whilst i the front parlour 1 was positively “dymg’ in thrce different positions 7 Stlly it is to be hoped that Miss ‘Terry will not be reduced to despaitr when she opens these pages, and be- holds hersell all the most famouscharacters in which she has appeared at the Lyceum,

Our luncheon party compriscd Miss Ailsa Craig, two friends, Miss Terry, and myself. Punch and Min- nie were o also present. lL.un- cheon over, we hurried away to the apple trees, and NMiss Terry brought out her camera—for she is a wonderfully adept photogra- pher-—-and 1in- sisted on my giv- g her a sitting. I wonder if Miss Terry knows what happened whilst

this was going on? DProbably

she does ere this but one moem- ber of this very

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happy party hastily procurcd another camera, and, whilst MissT'erry was photo- graphing me, she was “taken” herselfl, Then we started out for Winchelsea, and what a dehghtful curde T had! We visited the old prison and judgmoent house, now uscd as a public reading - room, and my kindly cuide re- membered a0 e entertainment she once gave ther, when, together with her daughter and o riend, they made their first and only appearance as “The Three OLd Maids of Lee” We looked in at the old church, and every one of the great sepuare pews sceemed Lo suggest - sleep, steep, heautiful sleep ! We saw the tree under which John Wes- ley made his last open-air address; the Iorary, a fine old specimen of architecture, and the wonderful old vates and cellars of the town, which make Winchelsea a0 Tarity amongst

rarc pleturesque places,

For hall an hour whilst

Miss Terry rested a hittdle -1 was left alone with o cigar. So walked and talked with the village chil- dren. And ] found out that Miss Termv's lov- ngy Kindness Lo the hittle ones 1s

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