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know of in the English language was coined, 

 not by my poor old grandfather, whose educa- 

 tion had left little to desire, nor by any of 

 the admirable scholars whom he in his turn 

 educated, but by an old matron who presided 

 over one of the halls, or houses of his school. 

 This good lady, whose name by the way was 

 Bromfield, had a fine high temper of her own, 

 or thought it politic to affect one. One night 

 when the boys were particularly noisy she 

 burst like a hurricane into the hall, collared a 

 youngster, and told him he was " the ramp- 

 ingest - sc ampingest - r ackety-tackety-t o w - row - 

 roaringest boy in the whole school." Would 

 Mrs. Newton have been able to set the aunt 

 and the dog before us so vividly if she had 

 been more highly educated? Would Mrs. 

 Bromfield have been able to forge and hurl 

 her thunderbolt of a word if she had been 

 taught how to do so, or indeed been at much 

 pains to create it at all? It came. It was 

 her xapKTfjLa. She did not probably know that 

 she had done what the greatest scholar would 

 have had to rack his brains over for many an 

 hour before he could even approach. Tradition 



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