Chapter IX: Finis

"Strange friend, past, present, and to be;
Loved deeplier, darklier understood;
Behold, I dream a dream of good,
And mingle all the world with thee."--_Tennyson._

In the summer of 1842, our hero stopped once again at the well-known station; and, leaving his bag and fishing-rod with the porter, walked slowly and sadly up towards the town. It was now July. He had rushed away from Oxford the moment the term was over, for a fishing ramble in Scotland with two college friends, and had been for three weeks living on oat-cake and mutton-hams, in the wildest parts of Skye.[1] They had descended one sultry evening on the little inn at Kyle Rhea ferry, and, while Tom and another of the party put their tackle together and began exploring the stream for a sea-trout for supper, the third strolled into the house to arrange for their entertainment. Presently, he came out in a loose blouse and slippers, a short pipe in his mouth, and an old newspaper in his hand, and threw himself on the heathery scrub[2] which met the shingle,[3] within easy hail of the fishermen. There he lay, the picture of free-and-easy, loafing, hand-to-mouth young England, "improving his mind," as he shouted to them, by the perusal of the fortnight-old weekly paper, soiled with the marks of toddy-glasses and tobacco-ashes, the legacy of the last traveller, which he had hunted out from the kitchen of the little hostelry,[4] and, being a youth of a communicative turn of mind, began imparting the contents to the fishermen as he went on.

[1] #Skye#: an island off the west coast of Scotland.

[2] #Scrub#: stunted shrubs.

[3] #Shingle#: a pebbly beach.

[4] #Hostelry#: inn.

"What a bother they are making about these wretched Corn-laws![5] Here's three or four columns full of nothing but sliding-scales and fixed duties.[6] Hang this tobacco, it's always going out! Ah, here's something better,--a splendid match between Kent and England, Brown! Kent winning by three wickets. Felix fifty-six runs without a chance, and not out!"

[5] #Corn-laws#: laws imposing a heavy tax on imported grain.
They made bread dear, and caused great distress among the
laboring classes in England.

[6] #Sliding-scales and fixed duties#: different kinds of
revenue tax.

Tom, intent on a fish which had risen at him twice, answered only with a grunt.

"Anything about the Goodwood?"[7] called out the third man.

[7] #Goodwood#: a famous annual horse-race.

"Rory O'More drawn. Butterfly colt amiss," shouted the student.

"Just my luck," grumbled the inquirer, jerking his flies[8] off the water, and throwing again with a heavy sullen splash, and frightening Tom's fish.

[8] #Flies#: artificial flies used as bait.

"I say, can't you throw lighter over there? We aren't fishing for grampuses," shouted Tom across the stream.

"Hullo, Brown! here's something for you," called out the reading man next moment; "why, your old master, Arnold[9] of Rugby, is dead."

[9] #Arnold#: Dr. Arnold died suddenly at the School on Sunday
morning, June 12, 1842, the day before his forty-seventh
birthday.

Tom's hand stopped half-way in his cast,[10] and his line and flies went all tangling round and round his rod; you might have knocked him over with a feather. Neither of his companions took any notice of him, luckily; and with a violent effort he set to work mechanically to disentangle his line. He felt completely carried off his moral and intellectual legs, as if he had lost his standing-point in the invisible world. Besides which, the deep loving loyalty which he had felt for his old leader made the shock intensely painful. It was the first great wrench of his life, the first gap which the angel Death had made in his circle, and he felt numbed, and beaten down and spiritless. Well, well! I believe it was good for him and for many others in like case, who had to learn by that loss that the soul of man cannot stand or lean upon any human prop, however strong, and wise, and good; but that He upon whom alone it can stand and lean will knock away all such props in His own wise and merciful way, until there is no ground or stay left but Himself, the Rock of Ages, upon whom alone a sure foundation for every soul of man is laid.

[10] #Cast#: throw.

As he wearily labored at his line, the thought struck him: "It may be all false, a mere newspaper lie," and he strode up to the recumbent smoker.

"Let me look at the paper," said he.

"Nothing else in it," answered the other, handing it up to him listlessly.[11] "Hullo, Brown! what's the matter, old fellow--aren't you well?"

[11] #Listlessly#: carelessly.

"Where is it?" said Tom, turning over the leaves, his hand trembling, and his eyes swimming, so that he could not read.

"What? What are you looking for?" said his friend, jumping up and looking over his shoulder.

"That--about Arnold," said Tom.

"Oh, here," said the other, putting his finger on the paragraph. Tom read it over and over again; there could be no mistake of identity, though the account was short enough.

"Thank you," said he at last, dropping the paper; "I shall go for a walk; don't you and Herbert wait supper for me." And away he strode, up over the moor at the back of the house, to be alone, and master his grief if possible.

His friend looked after him, sympathizing and wondering; and, knocking the ashes out of his pipe, walked over to Herbert. After a short parley,[12] they walked together up to the house.

[12] #Parley#: conversation.

"I'm afraid that confounded newspaper has spoiled Brown's fun for this trip."

"How odd that he should be so fond of his old master," said Herbert. Yet they, also, were both public-school men.

The two, however, notwithstanding Tom's prohibition, waited supper for him, and had everything ready when he came back some half an hour afterward. But he could not join in their cheerful talk, and the party was soon silent, notwithstanding the efforts of all three. One thing only had Tom resolved, and that was that he couldn't stay in Scotland any longer; he felt an irresistible longing to get to Rugby, and then home, and soon broke it to the others, who had too much tact to oppose.

So by daylight the next morning he was marching through Ross-shire, and in the evening hit the Caledonian canal, took the next steamer, and travelled as fast as boat and railway could carry him to the Rugby station.

As he walked up to the town, he felt shy and afraid of being seen, and took the back streets; why, he didn't know; but he followed his instinct. At the school-gates he made a dead pause; there was not a soul in the quadrangle,--all was lonely, and silent, and sad. So with another effort he strode through the quadrangle, and into the School-house offices.[13]

[13] #Offices#: servants' apartments.

He found the little matron in her room in deep mourning, shook her hand, tried to talk, and moved nervously about; she was evidently thinking of the same subject as he, but he couldn't begin talking.

"Where shall I find Thomas?" said he at last, getting desperate.

"In the servants' hall, I think, sir. But won't you take anything?" said the matron, looking rather disappointed.

"No, thank you," said he, and strode off again to find the old verger, who was sitting in his little den as of old, puzzling over hieroglyphics.[14]

[14] #Hieroglyphics#: here, writing not easily read.

He looked up through his spectacles, as Tom seized his hand and wrung it.

"Ah! you heard all about it, sir, I see," said he.

Tom nodded, and then sat down on the shoe-board, while the old man told his tale, and wiped his spectacles, and fairly flowed over with quaint, homely, honest sorrow.

By the time he had done, Tom felt much better.

"Where is he buried, Thomas?" said he at last.

"Under the altar in the chapel,[15] sir," answered Thomas. "You'd like to have the key, I dare say."

[15] #Chapel#: the late Matthew Arnold wrote the following
lines on his father's tomb in the chapel:--

"O strong soul, by what shore
Tarriest thou now? For that force,
Surely, has not been left vain!
Somewhere, surely, afar,
In the sounding labor-house vast
Of being, is practised that strength,
Zealous, beneficent, firm!

"Yes, in some far-shining sphere,
Conscious or not of the past,
Still thou performest the word
Of the Spirit in whom thou dost live,--
Prompt, unwearied, as here!

"Still thou upraisest with zeal
The humble good from the ground,
Sternly repressest the bad!
Still, like a trumpet, dost rouse
Those who with half-open eyes
Tread the border-land dim
'Twixt vice and virtue; reviv'st,
Succorest!--this was thy work,
'This was thy life upon earth.'

"But thou would'st not _alone_
Be saved, my father! _alone_
Conquer and come to thy goal,
Leaving the rest in the wild.
Therefore to thee it was given
Many to save with thyself;
And at the end of thy days,
O faithful shepherd! to come,
Bringing thy sheep in thy hand."

_Rugby Chapel, November, 1857._--_Matthew Arnold._

"Thank you, Thomas--yes, I should very much." And the old man fumbled among his bunch, and then got up, as though he would go with him; but after a few steps stopped short, and said: "Perhaps you'd like to go by yourself, sir?"

Tom nodded, and the bunch of keys were handed to him with an injunction to be sure and lock the door after him, and bring them back before eight o'clock.

He walked quickly through the quadrangle and out into the close. The longing which had been upon him and driven him thus far, like the gad-fly[16] in the Greek legends, giving him no rest in mind or body, seemed all of a sudden not to be satisfied, but to shrivel up, and pall.[17] "Why should I go on? It's no use," he thought, and threw himself at full length on the turf, and looked vaguely and listlessly at all the well-known objects. There were a few of the town-boys playing cricket, their wicket pitched on the best piece in the middle of the big-side ground,--a sin about equal to sacrilege in the eyes of a captain of the eleven. He was very nearly getting up to go and send them off. "Pshaw! they won't remember me. They've more right there than I," he muttered. And the thought that his sceptre had departed, and his mark was wearing out, came home to him for the first time, and bitterly enough. He was lying on the very spot where the fights came off; where he himself had fought six years ago his first and last battle. He conjured up the scene till he could almost hear the shouts of the ring, and East's whisper in his ear; and looking across the close to the Doctor's private door, half expected to see it open, and the tall figure in cap and gown come striding under the elm-trees toward him.

[16] #Gad-fly#: a gad-fly sent by Juno to torment Io, a
beautiful maiden whom Jupiter had transformed into a heifer.

[17] #Pall#: lose strength.

No, no! that sight could never be seen again. There was no flag flying on the round tower;[18] the School-house windows were all shuttered up; and when the flag went up again, and the shutters came down, it would be to welcome a stranger. All that was left on earth of him whom he had honored, was lying cold and still under the chapel floor. He would go in and see the place once more, and then leave it once for all. New men and new methods might do for other people; let those who would, worship the rising star; he at least would be faithful to the sun which had set. And so he got up, and walked to the chapel door and unlocked it, fancying himself the only mourner in all the broad land, and feeding on his own selfish sorrow.

[18] #Round tower#: the entrance to the head-master's
residence at Rugby is through this tower over which a flag
generally flies.

He passed through the vestibule[19] and then paused for a moment to glance over the empty benches. His heart was still proud and high, and he walked up to the seat which he had last occupied as a sixth-form boy, and sat himself down there to collect his thoughts.

[19] #Vestibule#: entrance hall or anteroom.

And, truth to tell, they needed collecting and setting in order not a little. The memories of eight years were all dancing through his brain, and carrying him about whither they would; while beneath them all, his heart was throbbing with a dull sense of a loss that could never be made up to him. The rays of the evening sun came solemnly through the painted windows above his head, and fell in gorgeous colors on the opposite wall, and the perfect stillness soothed his spirit little by little. And he turned to the pulpit, and looked at it, and then, leaning forward with his head on his hands, groaned aloud, "If he could only have seen the Doctor again for one five minutes, have told him all that was in his heart, what he owed to him, how he loved and reverenced him, and would, by God's help, follow his steps in life and death, he could have borne it all without a murmur. But that he should have gone away forever without knowing it all, was too much to bear. But am I sure that he does not know it all?"--the thought made him start. "May he not even now be near me, in this very chapel? If he be, am I sorrowing as he would have me sorrow--as I should wish to have sorrowed when I shall meet him again?"

He raised himself up and looked round; and after a minute rose and walked humbly down to the lowest bench, and sat down on the very seat which he had occupied on his first Sunday at Rugby. And then the old memories rushed back again, but softened and subdued, and soothing him as he felt himself carried away by them. And he looked up at the great painted window above the altar, and remembered how when a little boy he used to try not to look through it at the elm-trees and the rooks, before the painted glass came--and the subscription for the painted glass, and the letter he wrote home for money to give to it. And there, down below, was the very name of the boy who sat on his right hand on that first day, scratched rudely in the oak panelling.

And then came the thought of all his old schoolfellows; and form after form of boys, nobler and braver and purer than he, rose up and seemed to rebuke him. Could he not think of them, and what they had felt and were feeling, they who had honored and loved from the first the man whom he had taken years to know and love? Could he not think of those yet dearer to him who were gone, who bore his name and shared his blood, and were now without a husband or a father? Then the grief which he began to share with others became gentle and holy, and he rose up once more, and walked up the steps to the altar, and, while the tears flowed freely down his cheeks, knelt down humbly and hopefully, to lay down there his share of a burden which had proved itself too heavy for him to bear in his own strength.

Here let us leave him--where better could we leave him than at the altar, before which he had first caught a glimpse of the glory of his birth-right,[20] and felt the dawning of the bond which links all living souls together in one brotherhood--at the grave, beneath the altar, of him who had opened his eyes to see that glory, and softened his heart till it could feel that bond?

[20] #Birth-right#: here, the highest manhood. (See Ephesians
iv. 13.)

And let us not be hard on him, if at that moment his soul is fuller of the tomb and him who lies there than of the altar and Him of whom it speaks. Such stages have to be gone through, I believe, by all young and brave souls who must win their way, through hero worship, to the worship of Him who is the King and Lord of heroes. For it is only through our mysterious human relationships, through the love, and tenderness, and purity of mothers, and sisters, and wives, through the strength, and courage, and wisdom of fathers, and brothers, and teachers, that we can come to the knowledge of Him, in whom alone the love, and the tenderness, and the purity, and the strength, and the courage, and the wisdom of all these dwell for ever and ever in perfect fulness.

INDEX TO NOTES.

[D.H.M.]

A, 44
Accidence, 163
Achates, 257
Act'ly, 87
Addled, 271
Adscriptus glebae, 18
Affected, 202
A fortiori, 24
Agamemnon, 314
Aganippe, 258
Agincourt, 2
Aim, 35
Alfred, 11
Allowance, 322
Alma, 12
Amateur nest, 250
Amateurs, 290
Ambrosial, 251
Amy Robsart, 97
Angular Saxon, 18
A'nigst, 41
Antediluvian, 15
Argus, 164
Arnold, Dr., 372
Arra, 37
Arter, 85
Arthur, 239
Asser, 12
Assizes, 21
At large, 160

Baal, 228
Babel, 165
Backsword, 8
Bagmen, 82
Bails, 349
Balak, 11
Balances, 197
Balliol, 127
Barrows, 14
Basket handle, 38
Bath, 296
Bating, 133
Beagles, 128
Beating, 271
Bee-orchis, 7
Beggars, 182, 205
Belauded, 66
Belle Sauvage, 74
Bell's Life, 281
Bequest, 303
Berks, 5
Berkshire, 8
Bewick, 252
Big School, 147
Bile, 266
Bill, 2
Bird-fancier, 253
Birth-right, 379
Biscuit, 77
Bist, 26
Bi'st, 89
Black, 208
Blackies, 310
Black Monday, 7
Blethering, 41
Blowing, 263
Blown, 293
Bob, 208
Bolstering, 158
Bona fide, 45
Books, 95, 182
Boomerang, 310
Booths, 32
Boots, 73
Border-farmer, 251
Bore, 119
Bounds, 70
Bout, 4
Bowls, 90
Boxes, 74
Box's head, 87
Braces, 106
Break cover, 27
Brownsover, 201
Brown study, 75
Buckskins, 34
Bucolics, 163
Bulls'-eyes, 69
Bumptiousness, 95
Burgess, 84
Butts, 7
Buxom, 76
Byes, 350

Cairn, 10
Cairngorm, 321
Cajoleries, 184
Calico, 19
Calling over, 96
Callow, 250
Caloric, 79
Camp, 10
Canes, 105
Cant, 301
Cap and gown, 104
Caravans, 34
Cardinal, 26
Carlyle, 369
Carte blanche, 105
Cast, 372
Castor, 38
Casts, 152
Catskin, 94
Chaff, 37
Chaffinch, 272
Chaired, 369
Chalet, 23
Chambers, 4
Chapel, 375
Charley, 8
Chartered, 195
Chartism, 239
Chaw, 19
Cheap Jacks, 33
Cheroot, 76
Chesapeake and Shannon, 124
China orange, 112
Chivalrous, 285
Choleric, 58
Chorus, 325
Chronicler, 12
Churchwarden windows, 328
Cicerone, 95
Civil wars, 7
Clanship, 3
Clement's Inn, 22
Clerk, 310
Clever, 167
Close, 57, 100
Cloth-yard shaft, 2
Coach, 284
Cob, 88
Cobs, 351
Cock, The, 150
Cock, 309
Cock of the House, 200
Cockpit, 180
Cogitation, 250
Colleagues, 169
Combes, 321
Comme, etc., 23
Concord, 261
Confirmed, 338
Congenial, 236
Constituted authorities, 364
Constitutional, 275
Constitutional authority, 364
Construe, 144
Convivial, 174
Convoy, 97
Corn-laws, 371
Corn Market, 161
Cornopean, 159
Corollary, 57
Cosmopolite, 8
Costermonger, 48
Counter, 292
Country sides, 49
County members, 89
Courier, 22
Courts, 238
Coventry, 175
Cover, 8, 191
Coverley, 43
Cover-point, 350
Coxiest, 185
Cressy, 2
Cribbed, 261
Cribs, 312
Crichton, 56
Cricket, 32
Cromlech, 14
Crotchet, 4
Culverin, 2
Curacy, 4
Curry favor, 338
Cut, 105, 176, 191
Cut out, 290

Derby, 182
Derogatory, 218
Digamma, 77
Dingle, 51
Dips, 132
Doctor, 127
Dogmatically, 364
Don, 21
Don Quixote, 355
Dot, 309
Dowager, 238
Down, 7
Down shepherd, 37
Doyle, 1
Drag, 77
Dragoons, 30
Dramatis personae, 283
Drat, 26
Draw, 191
Drawing, 183
Draws, 354
Dresden, 7
Dresser, 53
Dulce domum, 7

'E, 17
Ear-marked, 199
Earth, 342
Ee, 41
Ees, 276
Egypt, 330
Elaborate, 260
Elect, 339
Elegiac, 260
Eleven, 221
Elijah, 228
Elysium, 165
Embrangle, 56
Ensconce, 251
Entity, 139
Environments, 24
Ephemerae, 206
Et ceteras, 267
Ethnology, 309
Eton, 323
Exercised, 342
Exhibitions, 346
Experto crede, 262
Extempore, 257
Eyrie, 10

Fagging, 101
Fairings, 33
Fat living, 238
Feint, 39, 292
Felonious, 273
Felony, 68
Fetish, 28
Fiery cross, 16
File, 90
First-class carriages, 79
First-day boys, 86
First-floor, 84
Fives' court, 100
Flank, 314
Flat, 356
Flies, 371
Flitch, 53
Float, 29
Floored, 265
Fond, 113
Foot-ball, 101
Footman, 64
Foozling, 271
Form, 168
Forms, 60
Freeholders, 18
Frontispiece, 292
Frowzy, 199
Fugle-man, 124
Functionary, 24
Funk, 135, 232
Fustian, 34

Gable ended, 150
Gaby, 68
Gad-fly, 376
Gamester, 30
Gammon, 312
Gee, 208
Gee'd 'em, 279
Generic, 139
Genus, 261
Geordie, 306
Get in, 360
Gi's, 43
Goodwood, 371
Gorse, 8
Goth, 328
Gradus, 246
Grampus, 333
Grapnel, 45
Gravelled, 298
Green rides, 64
Grewsome, 16
Grey, 242
Grimaldi, 97
Guard, 78

Habeas corpus, 356
Hack, 81
Hacks, 101
Half, 190
Half-a-crown, 184
Half-a-sov., 95
Half-sovereign, 37
Hamper, 78
Hand-grenade, 2
Handle, 290
Hands, 296
Hard all, 291
Hard away, 354
Hard-bitten, 347
Hare and hounds, 28
Harriers, 128
He, 37
Head, 293, 294
Hector, 283
Hecuba, 163
Hedge, 184
Heir-apparent, 27
Helen, 283
Herodotus, 355
Hieroglyphics, 374
High, 273
High feather, 266
Highflyer, 160
High Street, 84
Hind-boot, 78
Hoar-frost, 79
Hob, 363
Holus bolus, 23
Homely, 157, 239
Homer's Iliad, 283
Hop-picking, 22
Horn, 17
Hostelry, 371
Hot-foot, 206
Houses of Palaver, 182
Humble-bees, 70

Impecuniosity, 177
Imperial, 22
Impounded, 106
Incarnation, 147
Incongruous, 260
Ingle, 53
Inigo Jones, 14
Innings, 351
Integuments, 61
Intrinsic, 259
Ishmaelites, 197
Island, 101
Islington, 73
Itinerant, 114

Jack, 201
J. P., 19
Jobbers, 20
John, 46
Jug, 15, 142
Jugs, 132

Keeper, 13
Keepers, 203
Ken, 344
Kestrel, 256
King's College Chapel, 363
Kit, 72
Knee, 290
Knights, 353
Kossuth, 196
Kraal, 23

Laid, 7
Lakes, 346
Lancet windows, 32
Land me, 339
Larking, 108
Last, 330
Law, 150
Learned poet, 24
Leastway, 276
Leg, 354
Leg-bail, 354
Leg-bye, 359
Legitimate, 33
Leg-shooter, 351
Leicestershire, 151
Lessons, 237
Levy, 175
Lieges, 20
Life-guardsman, 44
Lift, 93
Likely, 205
Line, 331
Lissom, 52
Listlessly, 372
Living, 239
Locus penitentiae, 326
Lodge, 82
Lombard Street, 112
Long-stop, 349
Lord Craven, 14
Lord Grey, 242
Lord's grounds, 346
Lotus-eaters, 205
Louts, 123
Louvre, 7
Lunging hits, 292
Lupus, 167
Lurcher, 52

Magnates, 300
Magpie, 248
Malice prepense, 301
Malignant, 17
Manor, 50
Map, 11
Marianas, 18
Marryat, 218
Marylebone, 304
Martinmas, 35
Match, 208
Matriculating, 1
Maudlin, 132
Medes and Persians, 131
Medicine-man, 309
Meet, 81
Mentor, 94
Mercies, 339
Midge, 333
Midland, 237
Mill, 282
Miltons, 53
Minds, 35
Minimum, 259
Missive, 67
Mistletoe, 268
Moated grange, 18
Momus, 325
Moor, 321
More by token, 13
Moss-troopers, 252
Mucker, 177
Muff, 132
Mullioned, 58
Mummers, 19
Munitions, 266
Muzzling, 37
Mysteries, 20

Necromancer, 71
Nem. con., 284
Nestor, 363
Nether, 61
Nicias's galleys, 157
Nominally, 182
Nor, 85
Normal, 251
No side, 117
N[)o]table, 25
Nother, 53

Occult, 50
Off, 350
Offices, 374
Old Berkshire, 8
Old John, 46
Old man with a scythe, 4
Ominous, 191
Opodeldoc, 118
Ordnance map, 11
Oriel window, 92
Outlaws, 200
Over, 348

Palaver, 182, 196
Palaver houses, 46
Pall, 376
Pan-pipe, 34
Pap-bottle, 232
Parley, 373
Parrying, 292
Partisans, 291
Pater Brooke, 125
Pattens, 27
Peaching, 176
Peas'n, 276
Pea-shooters, 85
Peat, 321
Pecking-bag, 267
Pellets, 100
Pence, 36
Penates, 181
Penny, 36
Petty sessions, 29
Pewter, 255
Phosphorus, 71
Pickwick Papers, 171
Pie match, 308
Pig and Whistle, 85
Pikeman, 79
Pillion, 28
Pink, 81
Pinks, 83
Pipe, 34
Plancus, 109, 258
Plantations, 16
Play, 291, 333, 360
Poaching, 38
Po-chay, 91
Pop-joying, 29
Portmanteau, 78
Post-boys, 159
Post-chaise, 73
Pottered, 33
Pound, 6
Praepostors, 99
Predicate, 281
Premising, 175
Priggism, 46
Primum tempus, 68
Prisoner's base, 61
Privateers, 142
Privet, 13
Profane, 286
Progenitors, 57
Proselytizing, 242
Public, 15
Publican, 51, 228
Public schools, 66
Pull, 140, 293
Purely, 35
Puritan, 26
Purl, 81
Pusey horn, 17
Pyrenees, 114

Quadrangle, 94
Quaint, 36
Quantities, 261
Quarter, 293
Quarter Sessions, 21
Quickset, 272
Quit, 170
Quixotic, 4
Quoits, 90

Rashers, 82
Rating, 168
Raven, 64
Reaches, 201
Reading, 99
Reconnoitered, 59
Red tape, 46
Regulation catskin, 94
Regulator, 85
Richard Swiveller, 9
Rodney, 2
Roc, 263
Roman camp, 10
Rota, 142
Round tower, 376
Rug, 79
Rugby, 72
Rum, 246
Rum un, 87
Runs, 348
Russia, 108

Sacer vates, 2
Sack, 325
Salver, 238
Sampler, 53
Sapped, 336
Sappers and Miners, 11
Sar' it out, 23
Sauce-pan, 181
Sauer-kraut, 7
Saxon, 18
Saxons, 12
Scan, 261
Scatter-brain, 24
Science, 98
Scoring-table, 349
Scrub, 370
Scythe, 4
Seal, 319
Sebastopol, 251
Sedan-chair, 121
Sedge-bird, 271
Servants' hall, 61
Sessions, 21
Set-tos, 353
Sets, 146
Settle, 53
Seven and sixers, 95
Sheep-walks, 14
Shell, 105
Shell lesson, 284
Sheridan Knowles, 328
Sheriff, 348
Shilling, 6
Shingle, 370
Shovel, 42
Side, 117
Silver, 208
Sindbad, 263
Sirens, 22
Sir Roger de Coverley, 43
Sir Walter, 14
Six minutes' law, 150
Skittles, 46
Skye, 370
Sliding-scales, 371
Slithering, 269
Slogger, 287
Smock frocks, 19
Snob, 330
Snuggery, 362
Sodden, 291
Sold, 198
Somersetshire, 30
Sovereign, 37
Sparring, 129
Spinney, 8
Sponge, 296
Sprats, 289
Spring-board, 202
Sprung, 192
Squaretoes, 325
Squire, 17
Stage, 80
St. Albans, 80
Stall, 238
Standard, 333
Staple, 165
Star, 74
Statute feasts, 31
Steeple-chase, 97
Sterling, 181
St. George, 13
Stickleback, 28
Stiggins, Mr., 9
Stolid, 55
Stone, 3
Studies, 96
Study-fagging, 178
Stuff, 34
Stump, 349
Stumped, 354
Summary, 288
Summut, 41
Surrey, 322
Swarmed, 269
Swiper Jack, 350
Swiping, 359
Swiss Family Robinson, 58
Swiveller, Richard, 9

Tabor, 34
Tacitly, 282
Tackle, 81
Tackle-maker, 204
Tails, 177
Talbots, 2
Tally-ho, 73
Tap, 83
Taxidermy, 252
Team, 350
Technicalities, 103
Ten-pound doctor, 20
Thatched, 9
Thick, 154
Three-decker, 147
Three pound ten, 6
Thunder-and-lightning, 292
Tick, 119
Ticket-of-leave-men, 200
Tie, 44
Tighe, 17
Tile, 94
Tip, 87
Tithe, 167
Tizzy, 184
Toady, 47, 176
Toby Philpot jug, 15
Toco, 112
Toffee, 69
Tom Crib, 98
Top-boots, 34
Topping, 351
Tors, 321
Tory, 57
Toryism, 368
Toss-up, 201
Town, 361
Treadmill, 5
Trencher, 82
True blue, 57
Tuck, 291
Tuck-shop, 119
Tuppence, 36
Turf-cart, 357
Turnspit, 49
Turret, 297
Tutelage, 32
Twenty, The, 364
Twisters, 322
Twod, 41
Two seven and sixers, 95

Um, 16
Umpire, 40
Un, 16
Uncovenanted mercies, 339
Unctuous, 290
Usher, 66
Utopian, 238

Valeted, 28
Van, 85
Vantage-ground, 152
Veathers, 41
Velveteens, 204
Verger, 100
Vernacular, 19
Verses, 182
Vested, 368
Vested interest, 196
Vestibule, 377
Vestry, 57
Veto, 165
Vicarious, 262
Vice, 332
Vizes, 44
Vlush, 41
Volition, 256
Vools, 19

Wainscoted, 82
War, The, 237
'Ware, 274
Wash, 232
Waterloo, 116
Wattle, 151
Way-bill, 83
Wayland Smith's cave, 14
Wench, 35
West-countryman, 18
West End clubs, 46
Whey, 26
Whum, 19
Wicket, 52
Wickets, 90, 346
Wig, 28
Will-he, nill-he, 105
William IV., 133
Wiltshire, 30
Winded, 293
Windsor Castle, 98
Wiseacre, 325
Wiseacres, 213
Wooy, 37
Worships, 358
Wos-bird, 42
Wur, 44
Wykeham, 259

Yeast, 45
Yeomanry, 21, 238
Yeomen, 1
Yule-tide, 19

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