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in the most humorous style on the Breton song " Ann him goz;" 

 and ended by especially recommending its burden to St. Prix, 

 who was then a bachelor. 



Apropos to this musical supper-party, still the fashion in Lower 

 Brittany, and formerly one of the most popular of institutions at 

 Oxford, not long since a lady, an octogenarian, made her appear- 

 ance at Torquay ; and, meeting a mutual friend, she expressed 

 a wish to have an interview with Henry, Bishop of Exeter, the late 

 Prelate whose claim by the way, to the title of " Fidd Defensor " 

 was a strong and a real one compared with that of his Royal 

 namesake "For," said the lady, "I should like to ask his 

 lordship a question, while he yet lives ; and he is the only man 

 now living who can give an answer to it. I want to know 

 whether, on the occasion of a supper-party at Magdalen College, 

 Oxford, he did or did not say, what he is reputed to have said, to 

 my old friend Dymoke, father to the late king's champion." 

 It appears that they and a lot of jovial Demies had met together 

 in the common room ; and under the influence of a mighty bowl 

 of " Bishop," it was agreed that every man present should either 

 sing a song, tell a story, or drink a pint of salt and water. The 

 lot fell on Dymoke to begin ; but he sang so execrably ill, that 

 every one present was relieved when the song came to an end. 

 Next, it devolved on Henry Phillpotts to fulfil his part, or suffer 

 the penalty. " I cannot sing," said he, " and I should be very 

 loth to drink a pint of salt and water ; but if I must tell a story, I 

 should like to hear Dymoke sing that song again." 



The lady and the prelate met soon afterwards, and the 

 question being put, his lordship at once owned to the impeach- 

 ment, and greatly delighted the lady by naming the very song 

 Dymoke had so maltreated. 



The clock at the Cheval Blanc struck three, A.M., as the last 

 of the revellers quitted the salle-a-manger for their short night's 

 rest; and the consequent knocking, kicking, and shouting that 



