resided many years at Cambridge, where, as 

 at Oxford, cats are held in high honour and 

 are promoted to great positions. Sir Frederick 

 Pollock, who has been Fellow of a College 

 at both Universities, has described how his 

 election to a Fellowship was confirmed by 

 the " Senior Fellow," who 



Arose and sniffed the stranger ' s shoes 

 With critic nose, as ancients use 

 To judge mankind aright. 



I for 'twas I who tell the tale 

 Conscious of fortune's trembling scale, 



Awaited the decree ; 



But Tom had judged : " He loves our race" 

 And, as to his ancestral place , 



He leapt upon my knee. 



Alas ! the Senior Fellow is dead, but his 

 memory is kept alive : 



He seems, while catless we confer ; 

 To join with faint Ely sian purr, 



A tutelary friend. 

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