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On Tuesday week, Mr. WM. H. BUDGETT gave an entertainment to the boys of New Kingswood, which will be long and gratefully remembered by them. They were accompanied by the Governor and family, and all the Tutors, and Mr. Budgett, determined to make a high day of it, invited also the members of the Local Committee, and other friends. Several came from a great distance, and at much inconvenience. Mrs. and Miss Budgett, Mr. and Mrs. James, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel, and other members of the family were present. The day was most auspicious. Mr. Budgett provided conveyances for the boys from Bath, and for their return. The most abundant and choice provision was spread out on tables on the lawn, to which young and old did ample justice.A band was placed in a con venient nook, and discoursed sweet music at intervals throughout the day. After dinner the boys had the range of the beautiful gardens and grounds, so marvellously wrought out by the late Mr. Budgett, and then spread themselves out to a variety of games and sports pro vided by their kind host, and not the boys only. Every body seemed young and happy, for everything was exhilarating and beautiful. The aged beamed benevo lence, and the young felt as they ought to feel. The boys behaved to admiration, with no restraint but their sense of the fitness of things. Most of them visited old Kingswood, the scene of mirth and sorrow, and of various good and evil, remembered by many living, and with various emotions, whose history is yet to be brought out at some early day, when New Kingswood is to par take of equal good things with her younger sister. The boys learned many lessons of thankfulness by contrast ing that place with their present residence. After tea, and kind and encouraging addresses from Mr. William and Mr. James Budgett, the Head-boy, in brief terms, ex pressed to Mr. William the hearty thanks of the whole school for the enjoyment of so memorable a day. Next they gave lusty cheers for their host, the members of his family, the Governor, and others. They then sang the National Anthem, and gave loyal cheers for the Queen. Just as it was getting dusk a beautiful and large fire balloon was set off; and at the last moment, after many efforts to secure it, a parcel, anxiously looked for, arrived, and each boy received a copy of Wesley’s Hymns, in an appropriate edition, and beautifully bound, as a memorial of the happy day,—every heart respond ing, “Long life and all happiness to Mr. William Buagett.”
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Watchman and Wesleyan Advertiser
London, Middlesex, GB
Wed, Sep 10, 1862
Page 6
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