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B. i.tfc. beginner, or bungler, which you please, 

 at the end of his name, and many are the inter- 

 mediate degrees that he must prove his claim 

 to, before I can permit him to assume the dis- 

 tinguished title of S.S.S.*; which, for the 

 benefit of those who have not had the advantage 

 of a college education, I shall here translate by 



DEAD SHOT. 



It is true, that small is the number of those 

 to whom this highest of our academical honours 

 can be truly conceded, I am not saying this, 

 to throw a damp over my pupil's hopes, or to 

 lower the tone of his ambition. If a man 

 would arrive at excellence, he must keep his 

 eye upon perfection. It is therefore I have all 

 along endeavoured to direct that ambition to 

 this envied summit: but in doing this, I have 

 not failed also to point out to him the steps by 

 which he will assuredly make his way to it. 



* The Knights of the Order of the Garter, at the time of 

 their installation, are invested with what is termed their 

 collar of S/s ; which they continue to wear upon all solemn 

 occasions. I would submit to the learned reader, whether 

 our order may not with more classical justice assert their 

 exclusive claim to this collar, as the emphatic emblem of the 

 titular dignity signified by these initials, Societatis Scloppeticcc 

 Socius: an admitted jellow, with all the honours of the 

 order. 



