rhaps I had better not tell
But like a snail retire into my shell."

This last simile had evidently particularly delighted the poet. So much
so, that he brought it in at the close of every succeeding verse. The
"epick" went on, of course, to unravel the threads of the "adventure,"
and to intimate pretty plainly who "the youth" referred to was. To any
one not interested in the poet or his epic the production was a dull
one, and the moral at the end was not quite clear even to the most
intellectual.

"Now I must say farewell; yet stay, methinks
How many many youths do sit on brinks.
Oh joy to feel the soft breeze sigh
And in the shady grove to wipe the eye,
It makes me feel a man I know full well,
But like a snail I'll now retire within my shell."

These were the only articles in the _Dominican_ that afforded any
amusement. The remainder of the paper, made up of the usual articles
sneering at the Sixth and crowing over the school generally, were very
tame. The result of the Nightingale Scholarship was announced as
follows:--

"The examination for the Nightingale Scholarship was held on the 1st
October. The scholarship was lost by Loman of the Sixth by 70 marks
to 97. A good performance on the whole."

This manner of announcing the unfortunate result was ingenious, and did
Tony credit. For, whether his object was to annoy the Sixth or to
shield the Fifth, he succeeded amply in both. There were some, however,
in the Fifth who were by no means content that Greenfield should be let
off so easily in the _Dominican_, and these read with interest the
following "Notes from Coventry," contributed by Bullinger. Anthony had
accepted and inserted them against his better judgment.

"If the fellow is at Coventry, why not let him stay there?" he said to
Bullinger. "The best thing we can possibly do is to let him alone."

"I don't see it," said Bullinger. "Everybody will think we are trying
to shield him if we keep so quiet. Anyhow, here's my paper. You can
put it in or not, which you like. I'm not going to write anything
else."

Pembury took the paper and put it in. The reader may like to hear a few
of the "Notes from Coventry."

"The quaint old city of Coventry has lately been visited by a
`gentleman' from Saint Dominic's, who appears so charmed with all he has
seen and heard that it is expected he will remain there for some
considerable time.

"The object of his visit is of a private