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the School went there ; indeed I don't know 

 that more than from twelve to twenty were 

 absent. As soon as Arnold left the School- 

 house hall at dinner (he just comes in, you 

 remember, to hear the names called over), 

 the whole house, with the exception of my- 

 self and seven others, started off, leaving 

 their dinners and the empty tables behind 

 them. Ten minutes later we were all off, 

 except three, after them. The most remark- 

 able animal there was the Marquis of Water- 

 ford, who was riding his own horse in jockey 

 attire. Lee, master of the Fifth Form, set 

 a vulgus on the subject, and among other 

 curiosities had the following verse sent up 

 to him, ' Primus erat Vivian, Jerry secundus 

 erat. 



"The Druid's" account of this memorable 

 line is that it ran, " Lottery primus erat, 

 Nana secunda fuit." It is possible, of course, 

 that there were two steeple-chases at Dun- 

 church, in the first of which Vivian and Jerry 

 were the two leading horses, and another, six 

 or seven years later, in which Lottery and 

 the Nun occupied the same positions. I have 

 a distinct recollection of seeing the last-named 



