They stood with their teachers under the trees in the sunshine, little pictures of bloom and happiness.

'Now wouldn't you like to be running round the country on a motor ?' he asked them straight away, and their answer come with hearty directness.

In a naive and tender little speech, that had a touch of airiness, he told them of the joy of motoring, turning anon to the many glad and beautiful things within the reach of little people who yet might not go a-motoring, and so in simple little touches appealing to the joy of life and soul that the child-sense could understand.
"'Isn't he like Father Christmas ?' a little girl was heard to whisper.

Here he charmed those in the morning of life; away at Petersfield in the afternoon the sight of him consoled some in life's evening.

One poor old lady, who had lost the use of both limbs, was carried to her door and set in a bath-chair, and there she remained till The General had passed.