*& REMINISCENCES OF 



pupil on a tour round the town, when we distributed 

 these said medicines to the houses of the several 

 patients for whom they were destined a journey 

 from which we returned only as the clock struck ten. 

 I then learnt another fact : our governor was a 

 bachelor, whose only servant was also practically 

 housekeeper, and lived in a large, comfortable cellar 

 kitchen. We pupils took breakfast, dinner, and tea 

 in the dining-room along with the governor ; but on 

 our return from the physic-distributing tour, I found 

 the evenings, all work finished, were to be spent in 

 the kitchen with our housekeeper-servant. Our 

 bedroom was an attic at the top of the house ; so 

 far as sleeping was concerned, comfortable enough, 

 but when morning dawned, new social lights dawned 

 also. Our attic contained no provision whatever of 

 the lavatory kind ; for the performance of all such 

 functions we must descend to a brick-floored cellar 

 in the basement of the house and behind the kitchen, 

 where not only our toilet was performed, but where, in 

 addition, I found we had to clean our own boots. We 

 had also, before breakfast, to sweep the surgery floor. 



The second day was pretty much a repetition of 

 the first, save that my journey of the previous even- 

 ing was supposed to have made me familiar with the 

 addresses of all the patients ; hence I was installed 

 in the honourable office of errand boy, vice Hopper 

 resigned. 



The house had two sitting-rooms one behind the 

 . An outside covered passage ran alongside these 



