170 TOM MORGAN 



and may the merits of a redeeming Savionr pass your 

 spirit into the abode of the blessed." 



Besides the person I have named as my companion at 

 these pleasant reunions, there Avas one whose antecedents 

 and whose domestic circle recommended a reciprocity of 

 visits/ as well as others in the profession with whom 

 I frequently came in contact, whose attainments would 

 not have disgraced higher or more intellectual callings. 



One was fond of the histrionic art, and, as an amateur, 

 made frequent and respectable displays of his abilities, 

 in Shakspere's, and Bulwer's and Knowles's more 

 modern characters.^ Another — who had been educated 

 at the Charterhouse, and was closely allied to a cele- 

 brated and titled authoress — early showed a desire to 

 join the craft, by taking every opportunity in his out-of- 

 school hours, of driving hackney coaches. As he grew 

 up, he has been known, instead of accompanying his 

 mother, who kept the first society, to a party, to change 

 clothes with the coachman, and take greater delight in 

 jjcrforming his functions, than in any company to which 

 his family connections enabled him to gain access.^ 



Tom was a tall, handsome fellow, with rather fas- 

 cinating manners, and was as remarkable for the 

 redundancy of his wit and the keenness of his satire, as 

 he was in the number of his admirers among the under- 

 graduates and the tradesmen. 



Among the latter was a hatter, who sought every 



^ Mr. Joseph Fawcett, of the " Cambridge Times." 



2 Mr. James Eeynolds, of the " Cambridge Telegraph," 



3 Mr. Thomas Morgan, of the Wisbech drag. 



