160 SELECT VESTRY. 



static delight the perusal of so unexpected a 

 production gave him. 



Unlike my brethren, I did not seek or 

 care for the society of the under-graduates ; 

 but we are not always master of our actions, 

 and I was drawn in, by what means I do 

 not now remember, unless it was the love 

 of driving that urged one or two of them to 

 elect me a member of a small circle, who 

 par excellence styled themselves the " Select 

 Vestry." The first and only rule of this 

 little club was for I never heard any other 

 discussed to meet every Saturday after- 

 noon at Uncle Barefoot's, as they termed 

 the host of a small but respectable Hotel in 

 the town to partake of a dinner, cooked 

 in first-rate style, to which I was to con- 

 tribute the fish, as my portion of the ex- 

 pense, which I invariably did, fresh from 

 Billingsgate that morning. The wine was 

 of the best quality, which Uncle was always 

 careful to bring up in flannel from the 

 cellar, with a Bacchanalian smile upon his 



