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CHAPTER V. 



FURTHER REMINISCENCES OF HIS EARLY LIFE 



HE first time that the young 

 lady who subsequently became 

 "The Druid's" wife ever saw 

 her future husband, was when 

 he was pointed out to her in the Close, or 

 playground, of Rugby School. At that time 

 she was fifteen years old, and he was seven- 

 teen. He was lying on the ground at full 

 length with a bit of paper stretched out on a 

 flat board before him, and a pocket ink-glass 

 by his side. His thoughts were absorbed by 

 the "copy" which he was writing, and the 

 school-boy who pointed him out exclaimed 

 contemptuously, " Look at that ass ! He 

 never joins in any of our games or sports, 

 but writes everlasting yarns for Bell y s Life." 

 The nom de phime under which Henry Dixon 



