fore a number of boys, was always
increased. It was inculcated to him by his dame--that he must look upon
himself as the reverse of a woman in every thing, and not hold--that
whoever "_deliberates is lost_."

Lord Harrington was a boy of much natural spirit. In the great
rebellion, under _Forster_, when all the boys threw their books into the
Thames, and marched to Salt Hill, he was amongst the foremost. At that
place each took an oath, or rather swore, he would be d------d if ever
he returned to school again.

When, therefore, he came to London to the old Lord Harrington's, and
sent up his name, his father would only speak to him at the door,
insisting, at the same time, on his immediate return. "Sir," said the
son, "consider I shall be d--d if I do!" "And I" answered the father,
"will be d--d if you don't!"

"Yes, my lord," replied the son, "but you will be d--d together I do or
no!"

The Storers. Anthony and Tom, for West Indians, were better scholars
than usually fell to the share of those _children of the sun_, who were,
in general, too gay to be great. The name of the elder stands to this
day at the head of many good exercises; from which succeeding genius has
stolen, and been praised for it.

Tom had an odd capability of running round a room on the edge of the
wainscot, a strange power of holding by the foot: an art which, in lower
life, might have been serviceable to him in the showing it. And Anthony,
likewise, amongst better and more brilliant qualifications, had the
reputation of being amongst the best dancers of the age. In a political
line, perhaps, he did not _dance attendance_ to much purpose.

Harry Conway, brother to the present Marquis of ~80~~ Hertford,
though younger in point of learning, was older than his brother, Lord
Beauchamp; but he was not so forward as to show this preeminence: a
somewhat of modesty, a consciousness of being younger, always kept him
back from displaying it. In fact, they were perfectly unlike two Irish
boys--the Wades, who followed them, and who, because the younger was
taller, used to fight about which was the eldest.

Pepys. A name well known for Barnard's commendation of it, and for his
exercises in the _Musae Etonenses_. He was amongst the best poets that
Eton ever produced.

Kirkshaw, son to the late doctor, of Leeds, and since fellow of Trinity
College. When his father would have taken him away, he made a singular
request that he might stay a year longer, not