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find out the delinquent and make him pay. "The 

 Captain" must attend at the appointed hour nightly, 

 call over the roll of his troop, and keep their time. 

 He must also attend church with them once every 

 Sunday and report the absentees. The following 

 contains the substance of a code of rules, a copy 

 of which is supplied to every boy. I may add that 

 each rule is strictly enforced. 



1 No smoking is allowed in the saddle-room before 

 6 o'clock p.m., and no smoking whatever allowed on 

 any other part of the premises. Board-wages men 

 infringing this regulation are liable to instant dis- 

 missal. Both here and in the cleaning-room, strict 

 tidiness is enforced, and in the latter apartment each 

 boy has a peg to himself for his jacket and cap. 

 The baths are opened from 8 till 9.30 p.m. on 

 Wednesdays and Saturdays, and are to be left in 

 their original clean condition. Each boy has a box 

 in a room provided for that purpose, and must clean 

 his boots exclusively in the place appointed for 

 boot polishing. The bed-rooms are opened at half- 

 past 9 and all boys must be in bed and the lights 

 out by 10 o'clock. Any boy absent without per- 

 mission at the time first named will be locked out 

 and fined — for the first offence, sixpence, for the 

 second, one shilling, and for the third summoned 

 before a magistrate or dismissed. Every boy must 

 be in his place in the mess-room within five minutes 

 of the bell ringing, or he will not be admitted. 



4 No boy is allowed to run an account with a 

 tradesman in the village. Once a month a list of 



