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same colour. Northcote was therefore christened 

 " Tab ". 



Selwyn, who was afterwards Bishop of New Zea- 

 land, was then private tutor to Sir John Thorold, and 

 they did not live in college. 



Another fellow in Coleridge's house was Corn- 

 wallis Maude, afterwards Lord Hawarden. John 

 Bastard and Mat Tiernay were in the same remove 

 with me. We were up to Cookesley, and did six 

 o'clock lesson with Luxmoore. 



Northcote and Gisborne were among my greatest 

 friends, and I remember them picking up long reeds 

 and hurling them like javelins at each other, all the 

 time quoting Homer and fancying themselves Grecian 

 warriors. One of our great amusements in winter was 

 toodling — hunting birds in the hedges and chasing 

 them till they were blown, when we captured them.^ 



The following summer I was in the Victory, of 

 which Marriot was captain. She was a horrible old 

 tub ; it was like rowing in a barge. They gave us a 

 new boat, and we immediately bumped the Thetis, 

 the boat in front of us. Next year they promoted 

 the Victory, and made her the second highest boat 

 next to the ten-oar. I think Northcote was in the 

 Victory that year, also Marks and Meux. John 

 Quick was captain of the boats. 



Tom Walsh was captain of the Thetis, and we 

 pulled together in the lower sixes. He was stroke 

 and I was five. We won it by half a length against 



^ My father died on loth April, 1833. I went home from Eton, 

 and returned at the end of the Easter holidays. 



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