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place to a young gentleman from Cambridge, who 

 would have given him a crown to a certainty, whereas 

 he knew well that the miserly Sir Pitt was not given to 

 tipping. The undergraduate was no better pleased, but 

 confided to Becky that Sir Pitt horsed some of the 

 stages, and by way of revenge he meant to take it out of 

 his cattle, saying viciously: "But won't I flog 'em on to 

 Squashmore, when I take the ribbons!" 



Another undergraduate tooled the coach when 

 Arthur Pendennis went to Oxford, "in a well appointed 

 coach, filled inside and out with dons, gownsmen, 

 young freshmen about to enter, and their guardians, 

 who were conducing them to the University. A fat 

 old gentleman in grey stockings, who sat by Major 

 Pendennis inside the coach, having his pale faced son 

 opposite, was frightened beyond measure when he heard 

 that the coach had been driven a couple of stages by 

 young Mr. Folier of Saint Boniface College." 



The engaging Verdant Green, too, made his first 

 appearance at the University on the top of a coach — 

 The Royal Defiance — and Mr. Green had the same 

 cause for disquietude as the old gentleman in grey 

 stockings. The coach cantered up, seemingly enveloped 

 in a cloud of dust, but which on close inspeftion proved 

 to be "not dust only, but smoke from the cigars, 

 meerschaums and short clay pipes of a full complement 

 of gentlemen passengers, scarcely one of whom seemed 

 to have passed his twentieth year." 



Besides pipes, the undergraduates were plentifully 

 provided with other things deemed necessary for their 



