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high spirits, noise, and an occasional change of headgear with a good- 

 humoured and forbearing police than does the latter. 



To TwEEDLE Dee 



Any class of young men of naturally " good influence " who set 

 themselves dehberately to exercise it with a conscious intention of 

 doing good would become a set of insufferable prigs. Their aloofness 

 is due to deep-seated causes going back to the difference between 

 Esau and Jacob, which difference was so fundamental that it 

 manifested itself even before they were born. So perhaps (?) the 

 aloofness is better as it is, and is best left alone anyway, especially 

 if the undergraduate is meant to be useless now in order that he may 

 be useful hereafter — an opinion not far removed from common sense. 



However, perhaps we should be wiser if we didn't bother 

 ourselves over such high matters as the place of Barbarians in a 

 modern University, which is a subject proper to the " heavy " 

 Keviews. Things are what they are, the consequences of them will 

 be what we will be, and moral observations in a Beagle Book are not 

 likely to make much difference. We Barbarians are sons of Esau, 

 country bred and used to country ways, and we must find something 

 congenial to do while we sojourn among the courts and cloisters of 

 Jacob. So what sport is to be found by such 



As range the bleak East Anglian plain 

 Whose centre is in Jesus Lane ? 



For those who care for coarse fishing there are plenty of pike in 

 the rivers and drains of the fen. 



Shooting, except such poor and otherwise dubious sport as is to be 

 had on the introduction of touts and dog-stealers, is scarce, though 

 there are places not to be too particularly indicated where snipe and 

 duck may be found. There is plenty of good shooting about, but that 

 is so good that it is out of the question for undergraduates. In fact, 

 Cambridgeshire shooting bears considerable analogy to 



... the little girl 

 Who had a little curl 

 Right in the middle of her forehead, 



