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of his assailants, who were then and there 

 expelled. "After fifty years," adds Judge 

 Hughes, "their names may safely be given : 

 Rose - Price, Torkington, Wynniatt, and 

 Peters, Cock of the School, and another I 

 have forgotten, unless it was Gaisford, son 

 of the Dean of Christ Church. A tremor ran 

 through the School as Oswell, handsomest 

 and most renowned of athletes, passed out 

 and was not recognised. He stayed on some 

 two years more, accomplishing, before he left, 

 a feat which I can scarcely credit now, though 

 I saw it done myself. This was the throwing 

 of a cricket ball from the little side ground 

 over the elm trees into the School-house 

 garden. George Parr, the famous profes- 

 sional, threw a ball some years later a hun- 

 dred yards each way ; but I am convinced 

 that Oswell could have beaten him. He, 

 however, was then in Africa with Livine- 

 stone, shooting elephants, and sharing the 

 ivory with the great missionary. After this 

 crisis there was no more netting, but the 

 suppressed fire of the disputed fishing rights 

 still smouldered on, and was the cause of 

 many a flogging all through Arnold's reign." 

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