16 HAMPSHIRE HILLS. 



ter College boys, as they were termed, and 

 were as frequently warned by our ushers of 

 the impropriety of provoking a collision with 

 them; neither can I state what progress I 

 made in those studies that are intended to 

 prepare the mind for something more exten- 

 sive than the mere knowledge of reading, 

 writing, arid arithmetic ; but I can recollect 

 nothing to justify the favourable opinion of 

 my capacity which I foolishly fancied my 

 first master had implied. In after-life I 

 met with many of my then school-fellows, 

 who had attained to decent positions ; and 

 one or two in particular, who had risen to 

 respectable rank in the army. 



I was next removed to a school on the 

 skirts of the market-town of Petersfield, in 

 Hampshire, which I believe availed me but 

 little. I stopped here a twelvemonth ; and 

 my master, as I thought, was more fond of 

 surveying the beauties of nature, which 

 here abound, than drilling into obtuse 

 Hampshire boys the mysteries of syntax and 



