April 6 Monday – Bermuda. Mark Twain and Earl Grey met and talked to the children at the garrison school. Their comments appeared in the Apr. 19 NY Times. See Apr. 8 below for these.

Isabel Lyon’s journal: We went up to the Garrison School at 11, and were met by Col. Chapman who took us into the primitive school room where the tiny children were in charge of a Mrs. Wates, who had charge of the Garrison School in Cairo a few years since. Both she and the school master in Kahki had a pardonable pride in their pupils. They sang old English hymns for us without any accompaniment and their sweet voices made our hearts ache. The King sat there in his white clothes, and his eyes were filled with tears as those dear children sang. Then he spoke to them and told them how when he was a boy he had given the cat “pain killer”, and the greave children broke out into shouts of laughter. After we got home he told me that they were so serious that he did not know how he was going to break through that barrier; but the first ripple of sound broke, and then they were enthusiastic. When leaving time came they gave him three—no four—splendid cheers, following the Khaki schoolmaster’s “hip hip” which he said as “ip, ip.” Then we went to the officers mess. The Freemans took me to drive this afternoon and then we went to the Arts and Crafts for Tea [MTP: IVL TS 41-42].