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from being the same from inclination when 

 otherwise situated. Many a pleasant companion 

 have I not only secured by the mere offer of 

 a few friendly observations, when seated at 

 the same table, but gleaned much information, 

 as amusing as instructive. 



There was a time, when seated in the midst 

 of a host of Oxford-men on the outside of a 

 coach, not a single word was adventured by 

 any one of us, for fear of compromising our 

 dignity, in case he whom we addressed belonged 

 to a college less gentlemanly than we thought 

 our own. For a Christchurch-man to speak 

 to a Queen's-man, it would have been death 

 to his reputation, had such a "faux pas" been 

 known. 



A very slight skirmish indeed, to say nothing 

 of the stern battle of life itself, soon scattered 

 from the breast of the writer such flimsy, foolish 

 notions. 



When first landed at the door of the hotel 

 in question by the enormous machine, half 



