62 " MY KINGDOM FOR A HORSE ! " 



this despite and that his anger against me was terrible. 

 Hence my fear at the bare idea of going before him for 

 shooting a partridge. 



Mr Kingsley, to whom we owed the idea of kite-flying, 

 was even then experimenting with kites for military 

 purposes. He was really a wonder, as anyone who ever 

 knew him will agree, and there were few things that he 

 could not actually do. 



Thus, in our case, he arranged all the details of making 

 an icehouse, and levelling a croquet lawn no difficult 

 matter, of course, for those who understand such jobs ; 

 but he understood pretty nearly everything. 



Enough, however, and perhaps too much of these early 

 trifles. I come now to the time when I went to Rugby, 

 Tom Brown's Schooldays being the direct cause of that 

 choice. 



