yo PROFESSOR OWEN ch. in. 



' ... He (George Langshaw) wrote to me 

 last week to come over and witness the festivities 

 which usually take place when the Eton boys 

 break up, and the interest of the scene and place, 

 with the fine weather, made the offer too tempting 

 to be resisted. . . . My opposite neighbour in 

 Symond's Inn — Mr. Hepworth — kindly offered 

 me the use of his mare . . . and thinking the 

 exercise would be of service to me I ventured to 

 accept the offer. Behold me, then, at 9 a.m., 

 Saturday morning last, cantering through Lin- 

 coln's Inn on a very handsome and pleasant-going 

 nag, threading my way with some degree of 

 nervousness among the cabs and carts and other 

 vehicles of the crowded streets, and thankfully 

 leaving the same at Apsley House, where I 

 turned into Hyde Park. There a pleasant shady 

 ride extends to Kensington, where you again 

 enter the main road, along which I went pretty 

 quickly till I got to the " Black Dog," near Staines, 

 where we rested for an hour and then went 

 leisurely on to Windsor. ... At a quarter-past 

 three I reached Eton, and, having put up my nag 

 at the " Christopher," opposite the College, went 

 to Miss Middleton's, next door to the inn, the 

 dame with whom Langshaw and his pupil, Lord 

 Blantyre, reside. . . . Some of the boys having 

 had leave to go before the day of dismissal, I had 

 one of their rooms on the ground floor, which, as 

 it will give you an idea of the accommodation the 



