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cause there is a line in Prosody which begins, l To 

 lit ti, ut verto verti.' Hence the origin of this 

 Winchester custom." 



A school friend says of Frank at this time : 

 "Imagine a short, quick-eyed little boy, with a 

 shock head of reddish brown hair (not much ame- 

 nable to a hair-brush), a white neck-cloth tied like a 

 piece of rope with no particular bow, and his bands 

 sticking out under either ear as fancy pleased 

 him, in fact, a boy utterly indifferent to personal 

 appearance, but good-tempered and eccentric, with 

 a small museum in his sleeve or cupboard, some- 

 times a snake, or a pet mouse, or a guinea-pig, or 

 even a hedge-hog. In the summer he would be 

 always in the hedgerows, after birds, weasels, or 

 mice, or in the water-meadows, after crayfish, tom- 

 culls, and other fish which hide under stones. . . . 

 In fact, he was a born naturalist." 



Another says : " Frank set up a sort of amateur 

 dispensary or hospital. He had a patient or two. 

 One man I remember, with a bad hand, who used 

 to come down to College Gate at twelve o'clock to 

 consult him and be experimented upon. In his 

 toys (cupboard) he had various bottles and speci- 

 mens, one very highly treasured possession being 

 a three-legged chicken. 



" His own natural disposition was of the sweet- 

 est and gentlest. I never saw him in a passion, 

 though he used to get a good deal teased at one 

 time for his untidiness. But he always had a 

 bright smile amidst it all, and was ready to do 



