strong in the pathetic line, - say it's your first offence, and that
you'll never be a naughty boy again, and all that sort of thing. You
just do that, Giglamps, and I'll see that the note goes to - the
proper place."

"Oh, thank you!" said the freshman; and while, with equal difficulty
from agitation both of mind and body, he composed and penned the
note, Mr. Bouncer ordered up some buttery beer, and
Charles Larkyns prepared some soda-water with a dash of brandy, which
he gave Verdant to drink, and which considerably refreshed that
gentleman. "And I should advise you," he said, "to go out for a
constitutional; for walking-time's come, although you have but just
done your breakfast. A blow up Headington Hill will do you good, and
set you on your legs again."

So Verdant, after delivering up his note to Mr. Bouncer, took his
friend's advice, and set out for his constitutional in his cap and
gown, feeling afraid to move without them, lest he


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should thereby trespass some law. This, of course, gained him some
attention after he had crossed Magdalen Bridge; and he might have
almost been taken for the original of that impossible gownsman who
appears in Turner's well-known "View of Oxford, from Ferry Hincksey,"
as wandering-

"Remote, unfriended, solitary, ~slow,~" -