58 Life and Times of " The Druid." 



of Belial, and calculated to warp youthful 

 minds from Herodotus and quadratic equa- 

 tions — meet their eye in their ' studies ' and on 

 the hall table. They begin to take tickets 

 on the sly in Derby and Leger lotteries, and 

 think that they are already ' fast men ' on 

 the strength of the investment. 



"It was my fate to be at Rugby in the 

 lamented Dr. Arnold's days. ' Eton gentle- 

 men, Harrow bucks, and Rugby snobs,' had 

 long been a proverbial saying. ' Snobbish- 

 ness ' may be essential to greatness in clas- 

 sical and in other terrestrial pursuits, but it is 

 only fair to say that Charles James Vaughan 

 and Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, two of the most 

 accomplished sons of the sister universities, 

 were, together with Macready and * Nimrod,' 

 educated at ' this town of thirteen fairs.' 

 When I first went there everything about it 

 was calculated to encourage a sporting taste. 

 Lord Chesterfield was living at Abington 

 Abbey, near Northampton, and hunting the 

 Pytchley in a style I have never seen ap- 

 proached since, and many is the time when I 

 have rushed off after second lesson in the 

 generally visionary hope of seeing his hounds 



