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tioned distinguished corps has hitherto heen in the 

 habit of rejecting all crooked-legged remounts and 

 other deformities, a practice similar to that of the 

 Surgeon-Major who rejects all club-footed or lop-sided 

 recruits, but the legislature may possibly be invoked 

 before long to make them more humane for the future. 

 Well, if in its generosity it can be induced to take all 

 the remnants of the present period into war-pay in 

 order to keep the peace, and award compensation to 

 all present proprietors on the strictest condition that 

 it really is clean, straight understandings that are to 

 be henceforth reared up, and no others, let us clench 

 with that compassionate understanding, and any 

 person found hereafter parading a bent and bung'd leg 

 in any public place should, like those who don't pay, 

 be put in the pillory. 



Be it understood, however, we positively intend to 

 retain our full liberty to bet as we like. It is the only 

 sure path to test the Educational Scheme, and prove 

 whether Greek and Latin scholars or their dons either 

 can hold a candle to the wide-awake students under 

 turf tutelage, and stand an open vivci voce competition 

 with those algebraical bookmakers. Immediately they 

 venture out of their confined classical cloisters on to 

 geometrical going ground, they soon have practical 

 proof of there being no royal road to learning. Why 



