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wreck. He was "dared" by his comrades to get on the 

 back of a cow, which he did, but less fortunate than in 

 his cayman adventure, was ignominiously thrown over 

 her horns. He also took it into his head to get into a 

 washing-tub, and take a cruise in the horse-pond ; but lost 

 his balance at the sudden appearance of the master, and 

 was overturned into the muddy water. 



The whole of the account of his Tudhoe school ex- 

 periences is given in a collected volume of his Essays and 

 Letters (F. Warne & Co.), edited by Mr. N Moore, who 

 had the sad privilege of being with him when he met with 

 his fatal accident, and by his sofa when he died, about 

 thirty-eight hours afterwards. 



Tudhoe then being only a preliminary school, though it 

 has since developed into Ushaw College, Waterton was re- 

 moved at fourteen years of age to Stonyhurst, where he 

 was one of the first pupils. This establishment, then a 

 comparatively small one, was conducted by the English 

 Jesuits who had been driven from their home at Liege. 

 Of them Waterton always spoke with reverence and 

 affection, and his life at Stonyhurst was a singularly 

 happy one. 



At first, his ingrained propensity for enterprise led him 

 into trouble, and one adventure is too good not to be 

 narrated in his own words. His account of it is another 

 example of the way in which he enjoyed telling an 

 anecdote against himself. 



" At Stonyhurst there are boundaries marked out to the 

 students, which they are not allowed to pass ; and there 

 are prefects always pacing to and fro within the lines to 

 prevent any unlucky boy from straying on the other side 

 of them. 



" Notwithstanding the vigilance of the lynx-eyed guar- 

 dians, I would now and then manage to escape, and would 



