2 MEMOIR OF 



made subservient to the due acquirement of the 

 other. 



"Work and play" was the good man's 

 motto ; and to carry out this principle he 

 adopted the novel plan of keeping a pony- 

 hunter expressly for the benefit of the boys ; 

 and he who managed to gain the highest marks 

 for his work during the week was rewarded 

 with sole possession of the pony on the follow- 

 ing hunting-day. 



As might be expected, no stimulant could 

 have been more effective : the boys worked like 

 Trojans at their school tasks. 



During this eventful era, however, the child 

 "Jack" was in petticoats; and before he became 

 old enough to compete for a mount, his father 

 removed to Southhill Rectory, near Callington. 

 But, inheriting as he did a double portion of 

 that sire's hunting blood, had the chance been 

 given him, it may well be imagined how he 

 would have stepped lirst and foremost into the 

 academic ring, and how he would have striven, 

 early and late, to secure so glorious a reward. 

 His "Propria quae maribus," we may be sure, 

 would have been perfect ; his knowledge of the 

 Concords and Syntax equally faultless ; nor, 

 the victory gained, would he have failed to 

 acknowledge that the day's sport, thus earned, 

 had been doubly sweetened by the very labour 

 he had taken to obtain it. 



