here he
was the champion of the town-boys against those in college; and in the
great annual match, he had an innings that might have lasted till the
time Baccelli _run him out_, had not the other side given up the game.

As to the school itself, there it was easy to catch him out; though such
was his address, that he was seldom caught out. When he was in school,
really few boys were there to better purpose; he made several good prose
exercises both in English and Latin; and, what is rare for a boy of
rank, with but small aid from the tutor.

At school, he shot and rowed pretty well; and as he could not always pay
for his boat in specie, somebody proposed a barter of _Tothill-fields
game_; but he had a soul above it, and what was more, at his elbow
another soul, saying, _Carpamus dulcia_, and of my dressing. That friend
was

Lord Edward Bentinck, whose culinary fame began on the sparrows and
fieldfares knocked down about the Five Chimnies and Jenny's whim. At a
bill of fare, and the science how dinner should be put before him, he
was then, as since, unrivalled; yet more to his good memorial, he knew
how a dinner should be put before other people. For one day, as he was
beginning to revel in a surreptitious banquet in the Bowling-alley, his
share of the mess Lord Edward gave to the relief of want, which then
happened to be wandering by the window.--"This praise shall last."

Old Elwes, the late member for Berks, may occur, on the mention of want
wandering by, though, notwithstanding appearance, he suffered nobody
about him to be in such wants as himself. Penurious, perhaps, on small
objects; in those which are greater, he was certainly liberal almost to
prodigality. The hoarding principle might be strong in him, but in the
conduct of it he was often generous, always easy. No man in England
probably lost more money in large sums, for want of asking for it: for
small money, as in farthings to street beggary, few men probably have
lost less. What he had not sufficiently cultivated, was the habit of
letting money easily go. So far, he was the reverse of Charles the
Second; for on greater occasions, again I say it, he seemed to own the
act under the ennobling impulse of systematic generosity, expanding
equally in self-denial, and in social sympathy. He was among the most
dispassionate and tender-tempered men alive; and, considering ~78~~all
things, it might be reasonable to allot him the meed of meekness upon
earth, and of