Rugby Days. 59 



draw Hillmorton Gorse. Mr. Bradley's stag- 

 hounds were also in full force, and one day I 

 well remember that they collared their stag 

 opposite the school gates, and raced up and 

 down the town with him, until he shook them 

 off by leaping a seven-foot spiked gate with- 

 out a falter. Steeple-chasing, too, was just 

 becoming all the rage, and the kind-hearted 

 Dr. Arnold being determined that ' the 

 fellows ' (as he used to call them) should have 

 no pretext to disobey orders, dispensed with 

 1 calling over ' one afternoon, in order to let 

 them see the fun which was going on at 

 Dunchurch. The result of that day may be 

 told by the quotation of a dog- Latin verse 

 from a ' Vulgus ' of the next morning in the 

 Fourth Form. The maker of it (now a grave 

 Judge of ' niggers ' in the Punjaub), if he 

 reads these words under his fluttering pun- 

 kah, will no doubt recognise the last spirited 

 pentameter, containing, like a woman's post- 

 script, the gist of the whole matter : — 



" ' Lottery primus erat, Nonna secunda fuit,' 



which I must translate for the benefit of those 

 who are unaware that, in 1840, the Dunchurch 



