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THE TEINITY FOOT BEAGLES 



ment to bridge or gay half-childish games, such as Dumb Crambo 

 and impromptu charades. 



A decade later we begin to see signs of the general transition. 

 There was then a beaglers' wine club, The Inseparables, with a 

 distinctive coat. The coat was a plum-coloured velvet jacket with 

 silver braid with the arms of Trinity, two clasped hands and the 

 motto " Quis Separabit ? " on the pocket. It was confined to 

 beagling Trinity men, and so shows that the tradi- 

 W[^* tion of wining after Hall was not dead; for it is 



V ^-jif/ only so long as men dine in College that after- 



dinner clubs and societies must (for sheer con- 

 venience' sake) be confined to members of one 

 college. The entertainment consisted of wine and 

 fruit after the old fashion, blended with " smokes, 

 cards, and a sing-song," which are of the newer 

 time. The authority for this statement is J. S. 

 Carr-Ellison, who adds : " I believe the Inseparables 

 died out shortly after my time. I know that my 

 brother [H. G. Carr-Ellison, Whip in Kenneth 

 Walker's time. — F. C. K.] had a different dining 

 jacket, green velvet with a silver hare about the 

 collar." This was the coat of the T.F.B. Club, 

 which remains unto this day, and of which more 

 hereafter. Suffice for the present to say that the 

 inauguration of this Club marks definitely the end 

 of the old after-dinner wine tradition, which, 

 whatever its drawbacks, was for many reasons more elastic and 

 sociable, because more homely. The change has been helped forward 

 by the development of club dining-rooms, which has considerably 

 diminished the extent of private undergraduate hospitality. A 

 change, of course, in no way confined to beaghng circles. 



Before that time, as every one knows, there was no alternative 

 to dinner in Hall, always a hurried and comfortless form of " stoking," 

 other than a meal in one's own rooms supplied from the College 

 Kitchens, or dinner in a pretentious and exorbitant hotel. There 

 was nowhere where one could turn in on the spur of the moment 



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