se names he bears; who sometime
contending who should be the president, doubtless presaging the honour
that should redound to them from the future actions of our hero, the
affair was determined by throwing up a piece of money, which was won by
Mr. Bampfylde; who upon this account presented a large piece of plate,
whereon was engraved, in large letters,

BAMPFYLDE MOORE CAREW.

The reverend Mr. Carew had several other children, both sons and
daughters, besides Mr. Carew, all of whom he educated in a tender and
pious manner; and Mr. Carew was at the age of twelve sent to Tiverton
school, where he contracted an intimate acquaintance with some young
gentlemen of the first rank in Somersetshire, Devonshire, Cornwall, and
Dorsetshire.

The desire of the reader to be informed of the person of the hero of whom
they are reading is so natural, we should be guilty of a great neglect,
were we to omit satisfying our readers in this respect, more particularly
as we can, without making use of a figure in rhetoric, (which is of very
great service to many authors,) called amplification; or, in plain
English, enlarging, present our readers with a very amiable picture.

The stature of our hero was tall and majestic, his limbs strong and
well-proportioned, his features regular, his countenance open and
ingenuous, bearing all those characteristical marks which physiognomists
assert denote an honest and good-natured mind.

During the first four years of his continuance at Tiverton school, his
close application to, and delight in his studies, gave his friends great
hopes that he might one day make a good figure in that honourable
profession which his father became so well, for many years, and for which
he was designed.

He attained, for his age, a very considerable knowledge in the Latin and
Greek tongues; but soon a new exercise or accomplishment engaged all his
attention; this was that of hunting, in which our hero soon made a
surprising progress; for, besides that agility of limb and courage
requisite for leaping over five-barred gates, &c., our hero, by
indefatigable study and application, added to it a remarkable cheering
halloo to the dogs, of very great service to the exercise, and which, we
believe, was peculiar to himself; and, besides this, found out a secret,
hitherto known but to himself, of enticing any dog whatever to follow
him.

The Tiverton scholars had at this time the command of a fine cry