Fresh leaves and green pastures . that the Master hadtaken us over the site of the Roman villa whichmight have seen the battle in which the Generalfell; and had told of the elaborate pavement andpillars he had found, only to allow them to becovered in again. All except one pillar whichstood in his conservatory and which is reproducedopposite, and on which later on the Generalhimself was placed to be photographed in the veryunsatisfactory manner of those days. When wehad conveyed the precious urn back to the houseand the photograph was safely accomplished, theMaster looked about for the least d
Fresh leaves and green pastures . that the Master hadtaken us over the site of the Roman villa whichmight have seen the battle in which the Generalfell; and had told of the elaborate pavement andpillars he had found, only to allow them to becovered in again. All except one pillar whichstood in his conservatory and which is reproducedopposite, and on which later on the Generalhimself was placed to be photographed in the veryunsatisfactory manner of those days. When wehad conveyed the precious urn back to the houseand the photograph was safely accomplished, theMaster looked about for the least dangerous placein which to keep the General until the next day,when the scientists were to take it up to theBritish Museum, and to obtain the exact dateand age of the urn. We had had just one glimpseat the contents, which appeared to me to consistof calcined bones, enwrapped in a species of cere-cloth, for I think the top of the urn had beenremoved by unsealing it, by Sir Joseph Hookerscareful hands. Anyhow, I know we all gazed234. ?*H!WI»iii».iVHly,H*
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