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restored, raised his hand for silence, and thus addressed the 

 crowd— 



" We must all join in thanking Mr. Salmon for the entertainment 

 he has afforded, and in gratitude I propose that this formidable 

 obstacle shall no longer be known as the ' Water Jump,' but as the 

 * Salmon Leap.' " 



But, returning to Marlborough College. During the entire time I 

 passed at school, the general feeling between the masters and the 

 boys was one of distrust and enmity, and considering that the 

 cane was always on the go, this was only what might naturally be 

 expected ; for I doubt whether much love is ever lost between 

 masters of any kind, and those they have assaulted. 



When I first arrived in India, a veteran gave me the following 

 advice in which I heartily concur : he said, " Don't strike your 

 native servants, for apart from other reasons, they are sure to 

 dislike you for ever after, and are pretty sure to hnd some means to 

 injure you." 



According to Thackeray, the schoolmaster flogs his own son more 

 than any other boy ; but this sounds too horrible to be true. If it 

 is true, such a fellow must have common ancestry with the Fuegian 

 immortalized by Darwin, who dashed his child upon the rocks for 

 dropping a basket of sea-slugs. 



" Hey ! What ? Sea-slugs ! I am sure I should never dash my 

 child," etc. 



No ; not in England where policemen are about ; but I should be 

 sorry to trust you on a wild and broken shore in Terra del Fuego. 



The tyranny and eccentricities, or what we considered such, of 

 the masters formed subjects for much doggerel rhyme, which will 

 not bear repetition here. Its nature may fairly be described how- 

 ever in the words of George the Second, who, as I have somewhere 

 read, on casting his eye over a lampoon which a certain Bishop 

 had handed to him in order that punishment should be meted out 

 to the obnoxious writer, burst out laughing; and when his lordship, 

 much scandalised, exclaimed, " Surely, sir, you cannot find amuse- 



