if it had been announced, would have been far more distressing to me then than was the defeat of him for whom I should have voted if a vote in the Eye division had been mine. On at last we went, merrily enough at first, and in 3-1/4 miles crossed the Waveney and the boundary of Norfolk and Suffolk simultaneously at Scole; Scole of the true Roman road, Scole of the ancient hostelry, of both of which full notice has been taken in an earlier chapter. Four miles more we carried on gaily, 4-1/4 miles perhaps, for we were almost free from the long townlet of Harleston when more trouble came. It was precisely the same trouble in the same tire and cover that had been met with at Wortham. This time there was a garage, where the rent in the canvas was effectually repaired, while we took a hearty luncheon at the "Magpie"; and that was the end of tire-trouble for this expedition. We had certainly had at least enough of it. And here, since the road immediately in front of us positively teems with wayside subjects, let a pause be made and a short chapter ended. CHAPTER XI GREAT AMBITIONS CHEERFULLY RELINQUISHED. HARLESTON TO CROMER VIÂ BUNGAY, BECCLES, LOWESTOFT, GREAT YARMOUTH, CAISTER-BY-YARMOUTH, AND NORWICH Harleston--The "Magpie"--Typical East Anglian village--Flixton Park--Bungay--Mr. Rider Haggard as _vates sacer_--Antiquities of Bungay--Spa projected in eighteenth century--The vineyard--Derivations of Bungay--Chateaubriand at Bungay--A thatched church?--Beccles from the west--A vision--Towards Lowestoft--Glance at Oulton Broad--Lowestoft fails to please--Towards Yarmouth--Ambitious plans--Moonlight drive projected--Yarmouth pleases--Honest sea-faring industry--An acrostic and some ancient verse--Caister-by-Yarmouth--Sir John Falstolf--A precocious fifteenth-century Etonian--To Norwich and onwards--A moonlight drive--A sudden check--Grit in the petrol tank--An insoluble problem at night--Cheerful philosophy--To Cromer for refuge--The Links Hotel--Poppyland--Cromer no place for strangers--The haunt of a famous circle--Quotation from the Gurneys of Earlham--Seaside places are one-sided motoring centres--Scenery to westward strange rather than charming--A start in the morning--The grit still present--Labour of locating and removing--A stroll and survey of the country--Commonplace Runton--A taste of petrol--I break into jingle--Moral.