220 PROFESSOR SMYTHE. 



therefore, took by surprise both Dons and 

 Undergraduates, who had again began to 

 assemble in October. 



"You did not write that poem, Sir?" 

 said the Professor of Modern History,* 

 when he accosted me at the coach, as I 

 was preparing to start. 



" If I did not, perhaps you will inform me 

 who did, Mr. Professor," I curtly replied. 



" Where did you receive your education, 

 Sir?" he demanded. 



" In the cockpit of a man-of-war, Sir." 



The Professor said no more, but bowed 

 and walked away. 



From this gentleman, the author of the life 

 of Sheridan, I ever after received a polite 

 recognition. Not so from the successor to 

 the chair of this learned and amiable gen- 

 tleman ; for I remember shortly after 

 " Othello's occupation was gone," and I 

 had nothing to subsist on but the sale of 

 my poor productions calling upon him at 

 * The late Professor Smythe. 



