CHAPTEE VII 



"freshee" pease and "judy" carr-ellison 



Bravo ! Bravo ! 

 Punchinello !! 



Song. 



PLACE these two Masters together because they 

 reigned in my own undergraduate days, and 

 therefore at a time of which I have a personal 

 remembrance, and also because it was in their 

 days that T.F.B. took on a new lease of life. 

 Most of the work of Hunt and E. A. Milne 

 remained, as indeed it does uuto this day, as 

 does also Bob, who even then had made him- 

 self something of an institution ; but 

 hounds, though they last somewhat longer 

 than undergraduates, grow old and eventu- 

 ally die or are " put down." 



This is also the period in which verbal 

 tradition began to take shape in permanent " scriptures," much 

 of the material being collected by Pease, and arranged and copied 

 out by Carr Ellison, who was the first Master to devote his abilities 

 to the cause, and to exhibit genius as a chronicler which gives him 

 a place among such as Giraldus Cambrensis and Leofric, the Mass- 

 Priest ; the result being the " Farmers' Book," which is a most 

 valuable collection of miscellaneous matter providing material for a 

 sex)arate chapter. 



This is also the period in which T.F.B. first came strongly under 



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