CHAPTER IV. 



Is Ordained, and Licensed to his First Curacy — Keeps 

 Otter-hounds at South Molton, and Hunts with 

 Mr. Froude — Anecdotes of that Gentleman and 

 Dr. Phillpotts, the late Bishop of Exeter. 



Having resided the necessary number of terms 

 required by the University, Russell entered the 

 Schools for his final examination, declaring, as 

 he crossed the awful Quadrangle, that he felt 

 at that moment "very like Atlas, with a world 

 of weight on his shoulders." However that 

 might be, the stock of erudition he had acquired 

 at Tiverton stood him again in good stead, and 

 enabled him, with a very small amount of 

 previous preparation, to sustain the ordeal 

 bravely. His ambition did not prompt him to 

 go up for honours, nor did his name appear in 

 the class list ; but, having satisfied the examiners 

 and obtained his pass paper, he turned his back 

 on the Bodleian Library with a grateful and 

 joyous heart. 



That night, in accordance with an old 

 University custom, the happy event was cele- 

 brated with a grand supper ; and if, during the 

 orgies that followed, the toast of fox-hunting, 

 given with nine times nine and three cheers 



