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LIFE OF DEAN BUCKLAND . 
[CH. IX. 
and by erecting a sanatorium, obviated the necessity of 
their using boarding houses, thus effecting a saving to each 
boy’s parents of at least ^30 per annum. Fully to 
appreciate this we must remember that the School had no 
fees of its own, but was entirely dependent on the Dean 
and Chapter ; so what was spent was practically taken from 
the incomes of the Dean and Prebendaries.” 
In all these new arrangements Dean Buckland took a 
personal interest. Every Sunday morning,—after the 
Abbey service was over, and after he had, according to 
the old Christ Church fashion, taken his children for a 
walk in St. James’s Park to see the water-fowl, and to be 
rewarded with a penny if they spied any new importation 
among the feathered flock,—he took them the round of the 
School premises, beginning always with the “ sick house,” 
chatting with any of the seniors they met, inquiring how 
the new arrangements he had made for them suited their 
convenience, and asking them for practical suggestions. 
He also constantly visited the college kitchen to see that 
the food provided for the boys was of proper quality and 
properly dressed, and daily a “bever” 1 loaf was sent in 
from College Hall for his own breakfast. 
Among other additions to the comfort of the boys, he 
secured an excellent butler, Cleghorn by name, who had 
been a prominent member of the police force, and almost 
killed by sheep stealers. Cleghorn used to tell the boys 
1 “ Bever,” from the old French beuve = boire , to drink ; refresh¬ 
ments consisting of bread and beer, formerly served in the afternoon 
in College Hall, answering to our five o’clock tea, now applied to the 
rolls on the Hall table. 
