Childhood and Boi/hood 85 



Wednesday, April 6. 1 was examined by Gedge in mathematics, the examiners were 



Cramer, Johnstone and Meryvale (1). 

 Thursdny, April 7. Was examined in classics. I was •2nd in class. Tom Price got the 



prize. Bates and Holmes accesserunt. Came home. 



After return to school the rather unedifying life begins again : 



Monday, April 18. I knocked a fellow down for throwing a brick at me. 



Tuesday, April 19. I thrashed a snob for throwing stones. 



Wednesday, April 20. One of the boys bought a half-crown trumpet which made a 



tremendous row. 

 Thursday, April 21. We bought a birch pro bono publico for 1.5 shillings. 

 Friday, April 22. A tremendous row in the streets, on account of a blaguard thrashing 



one of our boys. 

 Monday, April 25. Saw the 1st swallow this year. 

 Tuesday, April 26. Got 30 lines of Virgil. 

 Wednesday, April 27. Got 20 lines of Virgil. 



Tuesday, May 3. Got the syntax to write out for drawing a picture of a race. 

 Sunday, May 8. Arnold preached. A fellow gave me a thrashing in the street. 



During the 2)eriod May 2 — 20 measles broke out in the school, 

 and Galton appears to have been ill and some days staying away from 

 school. Possibly he had a mild attack. On the 20th "mater" wrote 

 to ask for Francis to come home for Whitsuntide. But he is soon back 

 again at the old round : 



Thursday, May 26. Got an imposition in algebra to do for Gedge. 



Monday, May 30. Turner tecame a day boy, because he had not sufficient attention 



shewn him. 

 Tuesday, May 31. A complaint in the Journal on account of the Dr sometime ago, 



setting a boy 100 lines for talking. 

 Friday, June 10. The Dr took away a knife which I had bought with Pater's tip the 



day before. 

 Thursday, June 16. Fletcher knocked the cricket-ball into the ivy and lost it. The Dr 



was black as charcoal. 

 Friday, June 17. Had to bring up a tremendous imposition to the Dr. 

 Tuesday, June 21. The Dr stayed at home, so we could not have any bolstering or 



fighting. Came home by the Regulator. 



The summer holidays seem to have been spent at home ; tlie 

 weather was very hot — 85° in the sun. Darwin had bought a pony, 

 and the new pony and the old were driven tandem. Francis went to 

 stay with his sister Lucy (Mrs Moilliet), and shot thrushes and even a 

 swallow (" 1st shot"), and caught perch and other fish. Later in the 

 holidays he is shooting rabbits. This holiday also records : 

 Monday, July 18. Went to Stourbridge in the gig with Pater to see the locomotive engine. 



