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anything for anybody immediately after. One 

 thing used to strike me very much about him, and 

 that was his exceeding love for his mother. Boys 

 are generally reticent upon this point, but Frank 

 seemed never tired of telling me about his, and 

 how much he owed her. . . . 



" In school hours he was a painstaking and con- 

 scientious worker, never leaving his lessons or 

 preparing his task quicker or better than when he 

 had some pet, a dormouse or sometimes a snake, 

 twisting and wriggling inside his college waistcoat, 

 which, having found its way out at his boots, 

 would be carefully replaced under the waistcoat, to 

 go through the same journey again." 



While at Winchester, Frank determined to be- 

 come a surgeon, and chose as a parting gift from 

 one of his tutors, instead of Goldsmith's poems, 

 " Graham's Domestic Medicine." At his request, 

 his parents sent him a lancet, with which he bled 

 his college mates, if they were courageous enough 

 to submit to the operation, offering each one six- 

 pence as an inducement. Nevertheless, when, in 

 vacation, he witnessed an amputation at the In- 

 firmary, he fainted. 



When Frank left Winchester, Bishop Moberly 

 said, "I always had the utmost satisfaction in him 

 as a school-boy ; and I look back with very great 

 regard to his simple, earnest character, and his de- 

 votion to the studies which have made him so well 

 known. To me he was just what I always found 

 him, full of curious information, excellently kind- 

 tempered and affectionate." 23 



