132 " MY KINGDOM FOR A HORSE ! " 



Speaking of one of these overpowering rushes through 

 a scrummage, I wrote : 



A fellow nearly got killed, in fact it is not expected that he will 

 recover. He was playing in a scrummage with his head down to 

 see the ball, and the whole of his side fell forward, and his head 

 was doubled up under his body so that his face touched his chest. 

 A crack was heard and he was carried away insensible. 



His spine is all but broken in two, and he is paralysed from the 

 chest downwards. If he does not die he will never recover the 

 use of his limbs. His name Is Lomax and he is third in the school 

 next to me. 



It makes one rather shy of being under a falling scrummage 

 now. 



If I remember rightly, however, Lomax recovered from 

 that accident, and I trust he is still alive and well, though, 

 like so many others at a big school, he passed out of my 

 ken. 



It may perhaps be understood that with the departure of 

 Doctor Temple I lost the last link which really bound me 

 to any attempt at serious work, and the advent of Doctor 

 Hayman started an unruly epoch of the school, which to 

 me was not unwelcome. I wrote in the early weeks of 

 1870: 



I like the new Doctor very well at least he has not yet made 

 himself disagreeable. The masters have subsided and become 

 subservient to him, as he told them they might all go if they liked 

 and he could easily fill their places with others. 



This will give some slight idea of the difficulties which 

 confronted Dr Hayman. He was not a great man but 

 quite a good sort, and he would have got on well enough 

 had not the under masters opposed him in the way they 

 did. He once described them as "a pack of insolent 

 ushers " and it was a pretty good description. 



Many of us in the Vlth sympathised with him, and for 

 my part I regarded the trouble almost from an electioneer- 

 ing point of view, until I believe I got myself as much 

 disliked by the masters as was Dr Hayman himself. Then 



