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of shame and fear, Gilbert White thus addressed him: 

 " I was shocked and distressed, young man, to see you 

 in such a disgraceful situation as you were in last even- 

 ing a situation of which I hope you are thoroughly 

 ashamed. You deserve an exemplary punishment; but 

 I observed one circumstance which shows that you are 

 not wholly degraded. Your clothes were folded up by 

 your side, indicating habits of care and neatness which 

 appear incompatible with habitual degradation. I shall 

 therefore say no more upon this occasion, beyond the 

 expression of my sincere hope that I shall never again 

 hear of your being guilty of such disgraceful conduct/' 

 And thus he dismissed the youthful culprit. 



During his residence at the University, we find in 

 the various items of his accounts that he exhibited the 

 same generous hospitality to his relations and friends 

 which always distinguished him. There are con- 

 tinual entries in the diary of his expenditure of sums 

 spent in the entertainment of his visitors, sometimes 

 his sister, Mrs. Barker, and other members of the family, 

 at other times the Yaldens, Mulsos, &c., and on one 

 occasion some descendants of the noted William Wins- 

 ton, already mentioned as nearly connected with his 

 brother-in-law, Mr. Barker ; and it is evident that at 

 this time, as throughout his life, his habits were emi- 

 nently genial and social. 



I must not quit this period of his life without remark- 

 ing that the statement which has been made by some 

 members of his own family, that he gave up shooting 

 immediately on his being ordained, is erroneous. Not 

 only is this proved by the frequent entries in his accounts 

 of the purchase of the usual necessaries for the sport, and 

 by the fact that he kept several sporting-dogs, both at 



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