Punctual to the moment the train steamed into the station,
and the giant form of O'FLAHERTY, the "man in a million," leaped out
of the railway carriage, amid the plaudits of all the blue blood of
England's sports. In answer to inquiries the Champion laughingly
said, "he guessed this was a mighty wet country for a dry man," and
proceeded to the refreshment-room, where he "asked a p'leece-man"--oh
no, not at all, but, "Deep as the rolling Zuyder Zee, he drank the
foaming juice of Grapes." Thence a move was made to the palatial
office of the _Sporting Standard_, where the Champion was introduced
to the Staff. Hands all round followed, and a glorious day wound up
with a visit to the theatrical resorts of the latter-day Babylon,
in company with some of the right sort, though these be getting both
fewer and farther between than in the good old days.
[Footnote 1: An agreeable variant for this is Ju. P.]
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AUSTRALIA AT ST. PAUL'S.
[On the 17th of July the Earl of ROSEBERY unveiled a Memorial
erected in St. Paul's Cathedral to the late Right Hon. WILLIAM
BEDE DALLEY, of New South Wales, mainly through whose personal
exertions, when Chief Secretary to the Ministry there, the
Colonial Contingent was dispatched to the aid of England in
the Soudan.
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