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of my functions I have not yet found out. I once saw him on the 

 Backs on a hot " Scarlet " Sunday afternoon in May Week in the 

 black silk cassock, scarlet gown, scarf, and velvet square cap of a 

 Doctor of Divinity, and carrying a large cream silk umbrella with a 

 green lining. It was an exceptionally gorgeous colour scheme and 

 strongly suggestive of Gilbert and Sullivan. He had been in Miss 

 Evans' house at Eton, and Annals of an Eton House records that he 

 was " a most charming little boy." 



Dr. Morgan, Master of Jesus, was known as Black Morgan in 

 contradistinction to the late and famous tutor " Eed Morgan," of 

 whom ("Black" Morgan) a Jesus man ^ older than myself told me that 

 he was, as a rule, very lenient (in his tutor's days) to those who were 

 hauled for ordinary escapades. But once when a man came up for 

 something dishonourable and shoddy, he greeted him all down a 



corridor which led to his rooms with " You're a d d cad, sir ! 



You're a d d cad, sir ! ! You're a d d cad, sir ! ! ! " 



Bishop Selwyn, Master of Selwyn, had been, as his father also, a 

 great rowing Blue. He also, by the way, had been in Miss Evans' 

 house at Eton. In later years he was a cripple and used to go about 

 on a hand tricycle which he steered with his Ijack, but he retained 

 liis boyish spirits as long as he lived. About that time a son was 

 born to him at the Lodge, and seeing one of the tutors - going out 

 through the gate, threw up the window and shouted right across the 

 Court, "I say, Hudson, he's got a good long back ! Do to row Seven!!" 



Now I maintain that any one, even the youngest of beagling 

 " Athenfeum Ijloods," should have spent a very pleasant evening in 

 such company. 



One of the advantages of after-dinner gossip is that there is no 

 obligation to stick to the point, one may ramble freely, and I tliink 

 it time that we should drift into farmers' dinners in my time and 

 teste J. S. Carr-EUison : — 



" The Drag and Beagle Dinner to the farmers and those on 

 whose land the two packs hunted was generally great fun, and it was 



^ Dr. Dixon, who rowed in Jesus boats in the days of Hockim and the elder 

 Fairbairn, during their long period of headship. 

 ^ The Rev. Robert Hudson. 



