low, and swim bark;
The storm is up, and all is on the hazard!

There was cited at this time a somewhat similar event in the history of
Rugby School. Dr. Arnold, in a like emergency, had removed the school,
or all who chose to go, in numerous detachments under the care severally
of himself and others of his masters to various distant spots, among
others his own house in the Lake country, where they spent some two
months, and returned to Rugby when the danger was over. It was felt,
however, that this incident furnished no real precedent for the present
venture. What we were proposing was not to arrange a number of
independent reading-parties in scattered country retreats. Such a plan
would hardly have been practicable with a system in which, as in our
case, the division of the school for teaching purposes has no reference
to the division into boarding-houses. It was proposed to pluck up the
school by the roots and transplant it bodily to strange soil; to take
with us the entire body of masters, with, probably, their families, and
every boy who was ready to follow; to provide teaching for the latter,
not only without loss in the amount, but without interruption of the
existing system in any branch; and to guarantee the supply of everything
necessary for the corporate life of three hundred boys, who had to be
housed, fed, taught, disciplined, and (not the easiest of tasks) amused,
on a single spot, and one as bare of all the wonted appliances of public
school life as that yet uncertain place was like to prove, of which the
recommendation for our residence would be that no one else cared to
reside there.

CHAPTER II.--A CHARTER OF SETTLEMENT.

_Habet populus Romanus ad quos gubernacula rei publicae deferat_: _qui
ubicunque terrarum sunt_, _ibi omne est rei publicae praesidium_, _vel
potius ipsa res publica_.

CICERO.

HAMLET. _Is not parchment made of sheep-skins_?

HORATIO. _Ay_, _my lord, and of calf-skins too_.

HAMLET. _They are sheep and calves which seek out assurance in that_.

SHAKESPEARE.

The Trustees of the School met at Uppingham on March 11th. This was the
earliest opportunity of consulting them collectively on the resolution to
break up the school and to migrate, which had been taken on the 7th. They
sanctioned the breaking up of the school. On the question of its removal
elsewhere they recorded no opinion.

Meanwhile a reconnaissance was being made by