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nor do I see any reason to regret its having passed into 

 desuetude, though Serjeant Buzfuz alluded pathetically 

 to it in the case of Bardell v. Pickwick. It was a harm- 

 less game, but must have been in some sense objection- 

 able, or undergraduates would not have been forbidden 

 by ancient University statute to play it on the steps of 

 their colleges. The same statutes, however, had a 

 headline 



EQUORUM CURSUS PROHIBITUS 



and that seems to condemn the framers of the whole 

 code as imbeciles beyond redemption. 



