CHAPTER III. 



LTHOUGH among examples in the Latin grammar, 

 which caused so much tribulation and so many 

 tears in school, we find 



O formose puer, nimitim ne crede colori, * 



no one could fail to notice, that the good looking, 



or rather pretty lads, were not so roughly treated as 



those less favoured by dame nature. 



Mimicry in insects, is said to be a cause of protection against 



danger, and so Alexis or Hj'las, who might easily be mistaken for 



Ps3'che, escaped the hard words and blows so freely showered on 



their plainer brethren. 



" Old Chang " who occupied the next bed to mine, was a good- 

 natured flat-nosed fellow with almond eyes. In China, amongst the 

 heathen there, he might perhaps have passed as quite a beauty, 

 but here he came in for more than his fair share of invective and 

 execration. Had Chang been offered any choice, he would gladly 

 have given his fellow students a wide berth, and by staying away 

 from school, never have allowed his homely features to annoy them, 

 but unfortunately he was helpless in the matter. The wind, 

 according to a celebrated author, is tempered to the shorn lamb. 



* Don't trust too much to your beauty, pretty boy. 



