e a great deal.
I became one of a group of boys of the same tastes as myself. One day
some of them coaxed me into a privy, and there, in spite of me, pulled
out my cock, threw me down, held me, and each one spat upon it, and
that initiated me into their society. They had what they called
cocks-all-round: anyone admitted to the set, was entitled to feel
the others' cocks. I felt theirs, but again to my mortification, the
tightness of my prepuce caused jeering at me; I was glad to hear that
there was another boy at the school in the same predicament, though I
never saw his. This confirmed me in avoiding my companions, when they
were playing at cocks-all-round; being a day scholar only, I was not
forced at all times into their intimacy, as I should have been had I
been a boarder.

We had a very large playground; beyond it were fields, orchards and
walks of large extent reserved for the use of the two head-masters'
families, many of whom were girls. On Saturday half-holidays only, if
the fruit was not ripe, we were allowed to range certain fields, and the
long bough-covered paths, which surrounded them. Two or three boys of
my set told me mysteriously one afternoon, that when the others had gone
ahead, we were to meet in the play-ground privy, in which were seats for
three boys of a row, and I was to be initiated into a secret without my
asking. I was surprised at what took place, there was usually an usher
in the play-ground in play-hours, and if boys were too long at the
privy, he went there, and made them come out. On the Saturdays, he went
out with the boys into the fields: there was no door to the privy, I
should add, it was a largish building.

One by one, from different directions, some dodging among trees which
bordered one side of the playground, appeared boys. I think there were
five or six together in the privy, then it was cocks-all-round, and
every boy frigged himself. I would not, at first. Why? I don't know.
At length incited, I tried, my cock would not stand, and vexed and
mortified, I withdrew, after swearing not to split on them, on pain of
being kicked and cut. I don't think I was one of the party again, though
I saw each of the same boys frig himself in the privy when alone with
me, at some time or another.

After this a boy asked me to come to a privy with him in school time,
and he would show me how to do it. Only two boys were allowed to go
to those closets at the same time, during school time. The