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called Johnny Broome and Bungaree (an 

 Australian) were about to settle their differ- 

 ences in the fistic ring- at Six Mile Bottom, not 

 far from Newmarket. Upon hearing this 

 alarminof news the Tutor of one of the largest 

 Colleges at Cambridge determined to prevent 

 the University men under his charge from 

 attending this pugilistic encounter. Accom- 

 panied by a few other Dons, whom he had 

 pressed into the service, he took up a posi- 

 tion at the ' Paper Mills Toll Bar,' between 

 Cambridge and Newmarket, and pouncing 

 upon every man belonging to his College 

 who rode up to the toll bar, requested him 

 to take his ride in another direction. The 

 moral triumph of the Dons was short-lived. 

 One or two of the acutest of them soon ob- 

 served that the clothes of the ' countrymen ' 

 and ' grooms ' who jogged along the road 

 on Cambridge hacks did not seem made to 

 order, and that the slang in which they 

 addressed each other savoured more of 

 London and of the classics than of high- 

 pitched Suffolk. Perceiving that it was all 

 a plant, they resigned their disciplinary task 

 in despair. Nevertheless, one of the most 



