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PROFESSOR OWEN 
CH. III. 
. 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 
