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But if old Pirbright, who had been on the road since last century, did not know, nobody did.
He turned to Halidome and whispered: "Can you stand that old woman?" His friend fixed his fine eyes on him wonderingly. "What old woman?" "Why, the old ass with the platitudes!" Halidome's countenance grew cold, a little shocked, as though he had been assailed in person. "Do you mean Pirbright?" he said. "I think he's ripping."
You most of you have seen, I dare say, large stones, several feet long, taken out of these pits. In the gravels and sands at Pirbright they are so plentiful that they are quarried for building-stone. And good building-stone they make; being exceedingly hard, so that no weather will wear them away. If you chip off a bit, you find it exactly like fine whity-brown sugar, only intensely hard.
It has been claimed that the first well-authenticated occasion of a man being raised by a kite was when at Pirbright Camp a Baden-Powell kite, 30 feet high, flown by two lines, from which a basket was suspended, took a man up to a height of 10 feet.
Save a few shells, I believe, near Pirbright, there is not a hint that a living being inhabited that doleful sea. But do not suppose, gentlemen and ladies, that we have yet got our gravel-pit made, or that the way-worn pebbles of which it is composed are near the end of their weary journey. Poor old stones!
And then he'll put her into a set of circumstances that are n't her own but his version of them, and show her the only way of salvation is to kiss her husband"; and Shelton grinned. "Anyway, I'll bet you anything he takes her hand and says, 'Dear lady." Halidome turned on him the disapproval of his eyes, and again he said, "I think Pirbright 's ripping!"
You have all heard of Lady Grenville's lovely place, Dropmore, beyond Maidenhead; where the taste of that good and great man, the late Lord Grenville, converted into a paradise of landscape- gardening art a barren common, full of clay and gravel-pits. Lord Grenville wanted stones for rockwork; in those pits he found some blocks, of the same substance as those of Stonehenge or Pirbright.
I thoroughly enjoyed that week-end and, of course, joined the Corps. In July of that year we had great fun in the long summer camp at Pirbright. Work was varied, sometimes we rode out with the regiments stationed at Bisley on their field days and looked after any casualties. Each one groomed her own mount, but in some cases one was shared between two girls.
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