the keenest to remember joy in woe, and of all pleasures the sweetest to observe another's travail, upon either principle

-indulgence, the absence of every high principle, and the presence of every low one. Having to fill both the heads and the stomachs of thirty-five highly respectable boys, he bestirred himself only in the mental part, and deputed

ns and body took the lead of all of us. And this was Bill Chumps, now Sir William Chumps, the well-known M.P. for St. Marylebone. His father was what was then ca

ing the contents of the paternal cart, and blowing the Sibylline leaves of the meat-book, hande

we had been in school; and a longing for something mor

ood pig's fry?" the boy n

pie?" said the fellow beyond him,

and pastry? Kidneys, and mushrooms, is my tick

of that eminent butcher his father; not only when he wanted a choice bit of meat, but also as taking at a contract-price all

to elder minds, yet so foolish to seem to have no opinion, and to spoil all the honour of being consulted. A sense of responsibility made me pause, and ponder, concerning the best o

is countenance reassured us. The doctor stood up, with his college-cap on, a fine smile lifting his gabled eyebrows (as the evening sun lights up gray thatch), his tall frame thrown back, and his terrible right han

to mortal men who live on corn. Times there are for the diligent study of the mighty minds of old, such as we, who now see light of sun, and walk the many-feeding earth, may never hope to equal. But again there are seasons, when the dies festi must be held, and the feri? Latin?, which a former pupi

us were able to make out his meaning. But Chumps was

of. "Three days' holiday! Rump-steak for breakfast, and lie a-bed up to nine o'clock. Hurr

smile of good-will to us, whom he loved and chastened, came down substantially to the margin of his shave. But behold, to him thus beholding, a new and hitherto unheard-of prodigy, wonderful

for it. Much as I try to remember what my feelings were, all I can say is that I really know not; and perhaps the confusion produced by going round so

of rashness, but gently, equably, and in good balance, rising to the shoulders of the other little chaps, and then over the heads of the tallest ones. My sandals, because of the

at while all the other boys could only stare, or run away, if their nerves were quick, he made a spring with both hands at my feet, to fetch

ow, it was made for ornament more than use; and so it slipped out and was left in his hand; while, much against my will, I rose higher and higher. At the same time I found myself going round and r

d, as I still went up. "This is the spirit of the rising age! I have long expected something of this kind. I will quell it, if

airy revolutions ceased, my hands (which had been hovering like butterflies) stopped, and dropped, like beetles that hav

t if I had been caned, there would have been a mark upon my memory; even as boys bear the limits of the parish in their minds, through their physical geography. Likely e