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164 “The fineis heavy. Take your choice.” “Can’t you let me «ff, then? I’ve heen a friend to you,’’ pleaded Mrs. Manhug.” “Yes, you have,” he replied, under his voice. ‘Oh! do settle this thing for me, Mr. Scalpel, like a good dear gentleman, and I’m sure I won't trouble you for board if it was six months.” “Can't do it.” ‘“‘1’d hate to be vaccinated. out all over spots.’ ‘The ordinance must be respected. I can say,’’ replied Jack Scalpel. He put an end to further conversation bj run- ning up-stairs, closely followed by Sam, who asked him if he really meant to carry out the I’m sure I'd come That’s all oke. “ Of course I do. ay get some vaccine from the house-surgeon, ard if I don’t give her a lively dose in ber right arm it won’t be my fault, so help me bob.”’ ‘© Poor old girl! scratch herself.’ “That's what’s the matter,’’ replied Jack, throwing open his door and revealirg the figures of Moriarty and Fiewellyn enveloped in a cloud of smoke. ) There was a smell of cooking about the room, and the fragments of fresh herrings were to be seen on the floor. «‘T like your cheek,’’ exclaimed Jack. ‘ What mea ns this ancient and fish-like smell ? ”’ ‘‘ We’ve been cooking. Give an account of yourself,’’ answered Flewellyn. ‘¢ Ma-a-a, you old Welchman,” cried Jack, ‘‘Where have you’ been, Jack?” asked Moriarty, 7 ‘¢ Arrab, be aisy now, you Corkonian,’’ said Jeck. ‘Is itto the likes of a dhirty spalpeen tbat I’d be afther tellin’ my business?” ‘Why, you infernal played-out half-bred * quirts,’’ exclaimed Pat. yez a drop of the good beer we've got in the pitcher.” ‘‘ Hark, Sam, at the hard words he’s giving me, the blaggard,” exclaimed Jack. Moriarty held out the beer-jng, which he did not disdain to “take the top cff,”’ and sitting d:4n he lighted his pipe. ‘“‘ Say, boys,” he exclaimed, ‘‘ we’ ve had a good ol: time of it.” | ‘©T pelieve you,’’ replied Flewellyn. ‘You are the poy to doit. Are you coming to the hospital to-morrow ? ”’ ‘‘What’s up?” asked Jack. ; ‘You know that new man, Pultywhack ?”’ “ ]’ve seen the genius.” ‘We're going to have a cockivg-main to-mor- ro. afternoon in the disseciing-room, and that _ « kguard Pattywhack says we interrupt him "1 is Studies, and he says he'll tell the trustees and the whole hospital staf. ‘¢ The mean beggar,” exclaimed Jack. ** What are you going to do about it ?"’ ‘We've gotthe game chickens in coops in the bone-cellar, and when Puttywhack was dissecting a thigh to-day, Pat cut eff a bit of flesh from the stiff and gave it to the cocks.’ ‘Good. What did friend Puttywhack say to hat ?”’ ‘¢ Ho’s going to write to the papers and expose us. Hang him !”’ : ‘¢ We'll have to stop this,’ said Jack Scalpel. ‘(He must be brought to his tearings and made to understand that we’re notchildren. See here, boys, I’m in this. We'll duck him in the bone- hole.’’ Moriarty and Flewellyn approved highly of this scheme. The bone-hole was a sort of well in the floor of the dissecting-room, into which bones and flesh from human subjects, affer the knife had done with them, were cast. | To be ducked in this filthy, stinking and abhor- rent Mass was no treat. Such a punishment was only resorted to by the students in extreme cases. The offence of which Puttywhack, however, had been guilty, seemed to justify the adoption of extreme measures. ‘‘ T think I’)l go and write a letter,’’ said Sam. ‘¢ That's treason,’’ replied Jack. “‘ Fine him -a gallon of peer, py Jove!’’ cried Flowellyn. : ‘¢ Bedad, and he can’t break up this symposium to write letters to his girl,”’ said Pat. She’ll have to hire help to * Bedad, I’ll not give, THE YOUNG BRITON. When he returned {0 his room, however, he put his determination into execution, and indited a Jetter to his father. | He wrote— ‘ My Dear FATHER,— You will be pleased to learn that I am much delighted with the life I lead here, and that Professor Oram assures me that I have a good chance of gainidg an honorary certificate for proficiency in anatomy, and I have also the satisfaction of informtsg you, on the same authority, thatif I continue ‘o attend the lectures of the various professors a8 I have begun, I am sure of receiving certificates for very diliigent attendance. ‘ T work very hard, but I have been at some expense for books and after paying a month’s board in advance, ‘which I did on a matter of pru- dence, and I need scarcely tell you that after pay- ing for books and instruments, I am not well off I have the best work on surgery, materia medica Barnes’s midwifery, a standard on chemistry and dislocations, ditto on anatomy, all of which I mean to read through carefully twice, and anne- tate onthe margins. I intend to pay a private demonstrator to go over the bones with me of a night, for I have not yet been toa theatre, nor do I seem to feel any wish for thoee trivial delights which my gayer companions patronise. ‘T think ten pounds will carry me on, if you could Kindly let me have it, although I should like to enter a Summer course of dissections, and take some lessons in practical chemistry in the laboratories with Professor Manganese, but there I will endeavour to pay for out of my own pocket, as I do not wish to press heavily on you. *‘ Kver your affectionate son, ‘SAM SAWBONEs.”’ He did not know that he had left his door open, and that Jack Scalpel, who had sto!en in on him on tiptoe, was looking over his shoulder, ‘¢That’s your style, my boy! ’’ he exclaimed, as Sam concluded by fixing his s!gnature to this unique epistle. “Have you read ii ?’’ asked Sam ‘¢T took that liberty.” ‘‘ Wonder I did not hear you.”’ ‘ No wonder at a!l,”’ replied Jack. ‘* You were so much engaged in the agonies of composition that you could not notice me.”’ “ Will it do? ’’ “Jolly. You will bea great man one of theee days. I couldn’t have done it better myself, and that’s paying you a high compliment, for I’m an original genius, and have had more practice in that style of letter-writing than you have,”’ “Indeed.” ‘S'Yes. My dad suggested to me that I stonld throw up the profession and embrece that of a bezging letter-writer.’’ “ Rather rougb.”’ ‘“Tt disgusted me, and he has never had ary news from ne since, bad, good, cr indifferent. Will you smoke another } ipe ?”’ ‘No thank you,”’ ‘* Wel}, you can asleep easy on thatletfer. Iv) fetch the old man and bring tears into bis eyes, while your mother will weep in concert to think what a good boy she has.’’ ‘‘Tt seems a shame to deceive one’s folks,” ‘‘Not at all. Where ignorance is bliss it is folly to he wiae,”’ ‘* Bat it’s not straightforward, and I wouldu’t. have done it if I hadn,t been s0 confoundedly hard up.”’ ‘© Necessity has no law,” replied Jack. ‘¢ Have Flew and Pat gone?” asked Sam. ‘‘Gone under.’’ “ Where ?”’ ‘¢ The table, some fellows.’’ ‘You stand it well.’’ ‘Rather, but I’ve got some leit. bring you in a glass. **Not for me. I mean to work to-morrow,” ‘“‘T’ll drink your share, then,’’ answered Jack. ‘* For I started this week on a drunk, and I mean to keep it up to the end. So here’s aJl the hair off your head, and good-night,”’ With this valediction, the lighted-hearted Jack Scalpel went off, leaving Sam to lay his weary head on the pillow, and think over the various exciling events of the day which had just passed, (To be continued. Commenced tn No. 423.) Too much beer. It’s N, G. with Wait till I the Council. A Sept.<8, 1877. GREAT SCHOOLS: WHO FOUNDED THEM ; THEIR USES AND BENEFITS ; AND THEIR GENERAL HISTORY. By the Author of ‘‘ How to Make your Fortune.”’ 1X.—MARLBOROUGH COLLEGE. HE Great School which forms the subject of our present article differs from those of which we have already given an account, in that it boasts neither ancient foundation nor long and brilliant history. Founded in 1843, as a school chiefly for the eddgation of the sons of the clergy, the council of management, two years afterwards, petitioned the Queen to grant them a charter of ircorporation, in order that the school might be constituted a college. Too petition was presented by the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishop of Sa!isbary (in whose diocese the college is) and the Earl of Eldon, and was duly granted by letters patent, dated 21st August, 1845 The following is a brief summary of the constitution as by charter a; pointed. The corporation consists of three perpeiual governors, viz , the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishop or London, and the Bisbop of the diocese within which the college is Iccally situate, and their respective successors ; aud of life governors, viz., all those persons who were life governors when the charter was granted ; the Bishop of the Diocese ; every Bishop who in future shall co-- tribute £100 or upwards in ope sum; and every person who shall in future. subscribe £100 or up- wards in one sum shall be elected a life governor. The number of pupils is not to exceed five hundred, of whom at least two-thirds mu:t be sons of clergymen. No boy is admitted without nomination by a donor to the college of at least £50. _A donor of £50 is only entitled to a single namination. kite 7 A donor of £100 or more is eligible to be a life governor, and then entitled during bis lite to have always One pupil in the school for each £100 given. When a pupil is nominated, the total charge per annum, all things included, exeept books and wearing apparel (no additional charge being made fer medical or surgical aid or for washing linen), is—for sons of clergymen, £36; for sons of lay- men, £60. There are Only two vacation:—Midsummer and Christmas : and no hoy is allowed leave of absence during either halt-year but on the following con- ditions— 1. To visit such persona as the friends of pupils signify their wish that their boys should visit. 29. Abrence not extending ordinarily beyond euoset, or in eummer 6 p.m. 3 Leave must be always written and signed by the ma-ter of a boy’s form, and the master of bis ‘Chous2,’’ or in special cases obtained from the master. 4. Prefects alone to be absent leave. 5, No boy permitted to sleep out of college, or to bo absent at al! during school hours. And per contra pupils are no: allowed to remain with verbal . in college during the vacations. - ene One of the mos* excellent bye-laws is one pro- viding that ‘* pupils shall not, on any pretence whatever, order Clothes or any other articles 07; credit, nor contract any debt, on pain of expul- | sion if, after admonition by the master, either offence shall be repeated.’’ Many a youth bas begun adownward careerin life through contracting college debts, thus con- tracting a habit which is one of the most despi- cable, and one which is extremely difficult to shake off. Every boy, on his admission to the college, is committed to the care of such one of the house masters (of whom thereare at least three) as his friends may select. Pupils cannot be admitted unless they can read fluently and write legibly. Papils are not to be admitted under nine or above fourteen years; nor to remain after eighteen years of age, unless with tho sanction of (E(@) MiGIOO < 4