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to get to school, without anyone finding out ; but all my 

 life since I have sujEfered from a delicate throat, which has 

 constantly required great care. My eldest brother, who 

 shared my room, and who was only a little boy in the 

 Fourth Form, when he found out what had happened, most 

 pluckily went up to " X " and told him what he thought of 

 him ; and anyone knowing the immense gulf there is 

 between a little Lower Fourth Form lad and a boy in 

 Middle Division of Fifth Form, will understand the 

 admiration I felt at his so doing. I was but eleven 

 years old at the time, in Lower Greek, in the Lower School, 

 and it can scarcely be wondered at that I never com- 

 plained to the authorities, for the schoolboy code of 

 •'' never peaching " is held the more sacred the younger the 

 boy. One good result followed, that " X " was too 

 thoroughly alarmed to bully us any more, and the next 

 half I fagged for another master. 



The Eton beagles grew out of a very small commence- 

 ment, like most other things. In 1859 a boy in Lower 

 School, named Edwards, kept a very few hounds with 

 which he pottered about, and occasionally ran a drag. 

 The following year Moore, in the Sixth Form, had a rather 

 more pretentious pack, but it was not till 1861 that it 

 became a school institution, and subscriptions were 

 received. In this year J. Chambers, a member of the 

 Eight, was the master, afterwards so well known as the 

 winner of the walking race at the championship meeting, 

 and the perennial umpire of the 'Varsity boat race until 

 his early lamented death. In 1862 W. Trench, also in 

 the Eight and the football eleven, became master, and 

 regular Whips were appointed, these being Schneider, a 

 member of the Eight, and H. Meysey-Thompson, my 



