though rarely realized, of some one in authority suddenly appearing on the scene, truly an unbidden and unwelcome guest. Thus was the poet's principle literally illustrated: ("Omne tulit punctum qui miscuit utile dulci.")
With Palma too are associated the pleasant recollections of the Easter weeks spent there, when the strict College regime was somewhat relaxed and as the result of the students being allowed to cater for themselves, a privilege only conceded at this festive season, such luxuries as ham and eggs invariably appeared on the breakfast table! With the strength thence derived and literally " with loins girt and staves in their hands," the whole party would issue forth, bent upon breaking the record of the pedestrian feats of their predecessors, returning home in the evening having covered their thirty miles or more, to dine and compare notes with previous expeditions, but how many of them dead beat and foot sore!
Details such as these, it may be said are trifling and unworthy of record, and in truth they will fail to awaken a response in the hearts of the more recent generations of Lisbon's sons, yet there remains a goodly number, few alas comparatively, to whom the memory of those far-off days still continues to be a source of ever recurring pleasure.
("Claudite jam rivos pueri, sat prata biberunt")
