undation School a venerable College,
or a learned Inn. In the latter place of residence men are contented to
sleep in dingy closets, and to pay for the sitting-room and the cupboard
which is their dormitory, the price of a good villa and garden in the
suburbs, or of a roomy house in the neglected squares of the town. The
poorest mechanic in Spitalfields has a cistern and an unbounded suppy
of water at his command; but the gentlemen of the inns of court, and
the gentlemen of the universities, have their supply of this cosmetic
fetched in jugs by laundresses and bedmakers, and live in abodes which
were erected long before the custom of cleanliness and decency obtained
among us. There are individuals still alive who sneer at the people and
speak of them with epithets of scorn. Gentlemen, there can be but little
doubt that your ancestors were the Great Unwashed: and in the Temple
especially, it is pretty certain, that only under the greatest
difficulties and restrictions the virtue which has been pronounced to be
next to godliness could have been practised at all.

Old Grump, of the Norfolk Circuit, who had lived for more than thirty
years in the chambers under those occupied by Warrington and Pendennis,
and who used to be awakened by the roaring of the shower-baths which
those gentlemen had erected in their apartments--a part of the contents
of which occasionally trickled through the roof into Mr. Grump's
room,--declared that the practice was an absurd, newfangled, dandified
folly, and daily cursed the laundress who slopped the staircase by which
he had to pass. Grump, now much more than half a century old, had indeed
never used the luxury in question. He had done without water very well,
and so had our fathers before him. Of all those knights and baronets,
lords and gentlemen, bearing arms, whose escutcheons are painted
upon the walls of the famous hall of the Upper Temple, was there no
philanthropist good-natured enough to devise a set of Hummums for the
benefit of the lawyers, his fellows and successors? The Temple historian
makes no mention of such a scheme. There is Pump Court and Fountain
Court, with their hydraulic apparatus, but one never heard of a bencher
disporting in the fountain; and can't but think how many a counsel
learned in the law of old days might have benefited by the pump.

Nevertheless, those venerable Inns which have the Lamb and Flag and the
Winged Horse for their ensigns, have attractions for pers