fame,
_Ad Montem_ still thy verse resound,

Still live an ever cherish'd name,
As long as _salt_{2} and sock abound.

2 Salt is the name given to the money collected at Montem.

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THE DOUBTFUL POINT.

"Why should I not read it," thought Horatio, hesitating, with the MSS.
of Life in Eton half opened in his hand. A little Chesterfield deity,
called Prudence, whispered--"Caution." "Well, Miss Hypocrisy," quoth
the Student, "what serious offence shall I commit against propriety
or morality by reading a whimsical jeu-d'esprit, penned to explain the
peculiar lingual localisms of Eton, and display her chief characteristic
follies." "It is slang," said Prudence. "Granted," said Horatio: "but he
who undertakes to depict real life must not expect to make a pleasing or
a correct picture, without the due proportions of light and shade. 'Vice
to be hated needs but to be seen.' Playful satire may do more towards
correcting the evil than all the dull lessons of sober-tongued morality
can ever hope to effect." Candour, who just then happened to make a
passing call, was appointed referee; and, without hesitation, agreed
decidedly with Horatio.{1}

1 Life at Eton will not, I hope, be construed into any
intention of the author's to follow in the track of any
previous publication: his object is faithfully to delineate
character, not to encourage vulgar phraseology, or
promulgate immoral sentiment.

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LIFE IN ETON;

A COLLEGE CHAUNT IN PRAISE OF PRIVATE
TUTORS.{1}

Time hallowed shades, and noble names,
Etonian classic bowers;
Pros,{2} masters, fellows, and good dames,{3}
Where pass'd my school-boy hours;

1 Private tutor, in the Eton school phrase, is another term
for a _Cad_, a fellow who lurks about college, and assists
in all _sprees_ and sports by providing dogs, fishing
tackle, guns, horses, bulls for baiting, a badger, or in
promoting any other interdicted, or un-lawful pastime. A
dozen or more of these well known characters may be seen
loitering in front of the college every morning, making
their arrangement with their pupils, the _Oppidans_, for a
day's sport, to commence the moment school is over. They
formerly used to occupy a seat on the low wall, in front of
the college, but the present headmaster has