172 SATIRE 



may judge from the manner in which their society was 

 courted, they must have been regarded as a favoured 

 class. Indeed, some one thought us worthy the dis- 

 tinguished honour of being named individually, in a little 

 production of one of the colleges, entitled " Fifty-two 

 Miles from London," that aiDpeared in a well-known 

 Aveekly sporting paper. In this the habits of each 

 23articular dragsman, as we were termed, were distinctly, if 

 not correctly given, and with some of us — not willing to 

 think our avocation entitled us to such ludicrous ex^Dosure 

 — this was not very kindly received. 



I, among a few others, thinking a liberty had been 

 taken with my name, felt rather indignant ; and knowing 

 pretty well who were the authors of this attack upon 

 what we thought our dignity, took up my pen in reply, 

 and occupied a column of the Cambridge paper for four 

 or five consecutive publications. 



My name not appearing, the articles engrossed the 

 attention and excited the curiosity of many who had 

 long been familiar with the objects of this pointed Vnit not 

 very elegant satire ; and I had the secret pleasui'e of 

 witnessing the laughable remarks my idle hours had 

 called forth. My friend Samuel, who had a keen relish 

 for the humorous, was above all others in evincing the 

 ecstatic delight the perusal of so unexpected a production 

 srave him. 



Unlike my brethren, I did not seek or care for the 

 society of the undergraduates ; but Ave are not always 

 master of our actions, and I was drawn in, by what 

 means I do not now remember, unless it was the love of 

 drivino; that ur2;ed one or two of them to elect me a 



