i8 4 " MY KINGDOM FOR A HORSE ! " 



prevalent, and here is a letter, written not long after the 

 death of the Cardinal, but undated : 



We are gated at present for disorderly conduct at a supper in 

 FitzRoy's room one night last week Fortunately they were not 

 able to bring home to us all that was done, otherwise we should 

 have been sent down. We got into the principal lecture-room 

 at about one o'clock, took the desk away, locked it up in a coal 

 cellar and threw away the key . We then locked one of the lecture- 

 room doors, leaving the key in the inside, and barricaded the other 

 with tables, etc., so that it could not possibly be opened. We 

 then escaped out of the window which shut in the inside with 

 a catch ; and when the old man came to lecture next morning, 

 it was absolutely impossible to get in. He had to go away, vowing 

 vengeance, and the result was the window had to be broken in. 

 However, notwithstanding our gatement we went to dine with 

 the officers of the Scots Greys, who were going through here, and 

 got in quite safely about n o'clock, over Trinity wall. So are 

 the Dons scored off all round. 



To the best of my recollection the occasion of the above 

 foolishness was my coming of age. Hozier's uncle was 

 then Colonel of the Scots Greys, and that was how we 

 came to dine with them. The getting in over Trinity 

 wall was by that tune a very simple matter, for some time 

 before we had annexed a ladder which some painters had 

 left against one of the lamp-posts in the quad, and this 

 was carried down and secreted in the cellar where the 

 Bacchanalian picture had been found. In the far corner 

 of the quad there is a wall between Balliol and Trinity, 

 hidden from sight by shrubs and trees. It had glass 

 bottles on the top of it, but that did not matter when we 

 had the assistance of that ladder. The practice was to 

 arrange with someone remaining in college to put the 

 ladder over Trinity wall to be ready for such of us as were 

 coming in late. 



It was a sort of back entrance to Trinity that we used 

 to go down to get to the ladder, and it was easy, of course, 

 to climb by it on to the wall, then pull it up and put it 

 down on the Balliol side. This method of going in and 

 out was never discovered, but since the new hall has been 



