BUM CAPIMUS CAPIMUK. 



A STRAY LEAF FROM A DIARY. 



U.DGEOX, Hurley, Julia ; Nothing 

 particularly exceptional or congruous 

 ? surely in these three substantives that 

 'they should insist upon presenting 

 themselves to my mental camera in 

 such pertinacious juxtaposition ? Nice, 

 silky, euphemistic words they are, no doubt 

 words naturally suggestive of gurgling water, 

 whispering willows, and what Barney Maguire calls 

 the " laste taste in life" of dilettante sentimentalism ; 

 but is that any reason for their ringing the changes 

 in a sort of " grand chain" through my head all night, 

 and taking me a regular slap in the face this morning 

 the moment I opened my eyes upon the quadrangle 

 of old Trinity Hall ? Heigh-ho ! who'd have thought 

 that a week's gudgeon-fishing would have produced 

 such psychological manifestations? And am I not 

 lying, too, in saying that "gudgeon" is a euphemistic 

 word ? Distinctly : one more w-euphonious it would 



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