be inferred from this reasoning, but simply the sentiment
of this quotation-'The proper study of mankind is man.'

18 CLODS, as, "you clod," a town boy, or any one not an
Etonian, no matter how respectable.

19 FAGS, boys in the lower classes. Every fifth form boy has
his fag.

20 SCUG or SKUG, a lower boy in the school, relating to

sluggish. 21 MUTTONS. See note 8.

22 ABSENCE. At three-quarters past eight in summer, and
earlier in winter, several of the masters proceed to the
different dames' houses, and call absence, when every boy is
compelled to be instantly in quarters for the night, on pain
of the most severe punishment.

23 BOX of KNOWLEDGE, the pericranium.

With all that's witty, choice, and rare,

'Fore all the _Slugs_{24} of college.
Of private tutors, vulgo Cads,

A list I mean to tender;
The qualities of all the lads,

Their prices to a _bender_.{25}
First, Shampo Carter{26} doffs his _tile_,

To dive, to fish, or fire;
There's few can better time beguile,

And none in sporting higher.

24 SLUGS of College, an offensive appellation applied to the
fellows of Eton by the townsmen.

25 BENDER, a sixpence.

26 Note from Bernard Blackmantle, M.A. to Shampo Carter and
Co. P.T.'s:--

MESSIEURS THE CADS OF ETON, In handing down to posterity
your multifarious merits and brilliant qualifications, you
will perceive I have not forgotten the signal services and
delightful gratifications so often afforded me in the days
of my youth. Be assured, most assiduous worthies, that I am
fully sensible of all your merits, and can appreciate justly
your great usefulness to the rising generation. You are the
sappers and miners of knowledge, who attack and destroy the
citadel of sense before it is scarcely defensible. It is no
fault of yours if the stripling of Eton is not, at eighteen,
well initiated into all the mysteries of life, excepting
only the, to him, mysterious volumes of the classics. To do
justice to all was not within the limits of my work; I have
therefore selected from among you the most distinguished
names, and I flatter myself, in so doing, I have omitted
very few of any note; if, however, any efficient member of
your