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usual trimmings on a Sabbath, and we suggested they were hardly 

 the thing to go to the Kennels with. However, he would have none 

 of it, and asked our names and fined us double for running away and 

 being caught, and double that on account of its being a Sunday. 

 Hardcastle said, " I was not outside the door." The Proctor's reply 

 was, " Your body was not, but your feet were and your animus was 

 the same as that of the rest of the party, except that you had not the 



"Hi, you elderly yellow-bellied Oyster! Have you seen the Hare?" 



opportunity of exercising the animus domum revertandi as the rest 

 did." Turning to me he said, " I fancy you are a B.A." ^ I pleaded 

 guilty to the impeachment, and was horrified to learn that on that 

 account my fine was doubled all round. His subsequent conduct, 

 however, deserves to be held vip as an example to his successors in 

 office, as he let us all off with 13s. 4d., and I received the following 

 letter, which was nice of him, to say the least of it : — 



^ A Bachelor's fines are doubled, presumably on the ground that he is " old enough 

 to know better." — F. C. K. 



