and straightway utilized the forefinger of his vis-a-vis. LITTLE 

 A suppressed feminine screech followed, but the fires JOURNEYS 

 of friendship were not quenched by so slight an inci- 

 dent, which Mrs. Vincent well knew grew out of tem- 

 perament and not from wrong intent. 

 She lived to be eighty-five, and to the day of her death 

 caressed the scar the cicatrice of a love wound. All 

 of which seems to prove that old women can be quite 

 as absurd as young ones goodness me ! 



[HEN Isaac was eighteen, Master Stokes 

 was so impressed by his star scholar that 

 he called in the Rev. Mr. Ayscough and 

 insisted that the boy be sent to Cambridge. 

 The uncle being a Cambridge man him- 

 self, thought this the proper thing to do. 

 Q On June 5th, 1661, Isaac presented his credentials 

 from his uncle and Mr. Stokes, and was duly entered to 

 Trinity College as a subsizar, which means that he 

 was admitted on suspicion. A part of the duties of a 

 subsizar was to clean boots, scrub floors and perform 

 various other delightful tasks which everybody else 

 evaded Jt, ^ 



To be at Trinity College in any capacity was paradise 

 for this boy. He thirsted for knowledge to know, to 

 do, to perform these things were his desire. He had 

 been brought up to work, anyway, and to a country boy 

 toil is no punishment. " I knew that if worse came to 

 worst I could get employment in the town making fur- 



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