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the most beautiful thing to be seen in any society, a
Christian English home full of mirth and goodness,
though sorely stricken by bereavement. I feel sure the
tradition of real friendliness which still survives un·
impaired in the Haileybury circle was founded and
fostered for many years principally by the influence of
the Bensley family circle. After him, among those who
have gone before, I must mention E. P. Ash, B. Couchman,
almost coeval with Bensley, and men of distinctive
gifts dedicated for many years to their loved school.
Gone, too, is a much younger man and one of the most
stimulating companions, F. W. Headley, a self-taught,
biological naturalist. of the front rank. Be was also a
first-class Cambridge classic, an excellent modern linguist,
and nearly a first-rate athlete, and no straighter,
more duty-loving man have I ever met. A. D. Carlisle
was another personal friend ; also J. L. Dove, P. B.
Latham, A. A. Lea, W. R. Burgess, and many others.
The staff consisted of a fine lot of trusty, sturdy Englishmen
of very varied type. I must not forget M. Vaughan
and W. Fenning, and W. Kennedy, already mentioned
for his History lectures. Some astonishing achievements
in the light operetta way are to the credit of G. B. S.
Lewis, who could compose libretto and music, choose and
coach the boy-actors for a really finished !performance
')Vithout encroaching on the school work. Immense service
was rendered for years by Rev. L. S. Milford, whose
contributions as Prreteritns to Th6 Haileyburian were so
complete and so wholly free from journalistic display
that they set the periodical in a very high place among
school magazines. I cannot conclude without mentioning
a great friend, J. A. Turner, one of the best schoolmasters
I know.
An instructive incident occurred during the latter
portion of the Boer War, which, as has happened before
and since, was reported in a form not to be sharply distinguished
from fiction.