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what slightly built, his fleetness of foot, and the 

 general alertness of eye and movement which later 

 on made him such a first-rate game shot, also made 

 him one of the best public school " forwards " of 

 his year ; and though he afterwards lost his speed, 

 he kept his love of the game, and continued to play 

 occasionally at Charterhouse and elsewhere till an age 

 when most men have long discarded so arduous a 

 game. 



As to his more serious studies at Charterhouse, 

 he always maintained that he was lazy there, and 

 did not learn as much as he ought to have done, but 

 his ideas of laziness were so different from those 

 of most other people that this statement cannot be 

 accepted without a good deal of reserve. At the 

 end of his second term he won the classical prize 

 given for the whole of the lower school, and always 

 took a very good place in the school, besides winning 

 the lasting affection of many of his masters and 

 schoolfellows. One of the latter who did not meet 

 him for some years, wrote to me recently : " He was 

 one of my old school and college friends of whom 

 I always think with great affection. I have the 

 happiest recollection of him, and there never was a 

 time when I did not admire the spirit and enthusiasm 

 which marked all that he did, and which ensured 

 success in whatever he undertook." Charles Cornish's 

 own recollections of Charterhouse were among the 

 happiest of his life ; and it was one of his greatest 

 pleasures to revisit the school from time to time, 

 and to stay with his former house-master, the Rev. 



