19 FAGS, boys in the lower classes. Every fifth form boy has
his fag.
20 SCUG or SKUG, a lower boy in the school, relating to
sluggish. 21 MUTTONS. See note 8.
22 ABSENCE. At three-quarters past eight in summer, and
earlier in winter, several of the masters proceed to the
different dames' houses, and call absence, when every boy is
compelled to be instantly in quarters for the night, on pain
of the most severe punishment.
23 BOX of KNOWLEDGE, the pericranium.
With all that's witty, choice, and rare,
'Fore all the _Slugs_{24} of college.
Of private tutors, vulgo Cads,
A list I mean to tender;
The qualities of all the lads,
Their prices to a _bender_.{25}
First, Shampo Carter{26} doffs his _tile_,
To dive, to fish, or fire;
There's few can better time beguile,
And none in sporting higher.
24 SLUGS of College, an offensive appellation applied to the
fellows of Eton by the townsmen.
25 BENDER, a sixpence.
26 Note from Bernard Blackmantle, M.A. to Shampo Carter and
Co. P.T.'s:--
MESSIEURS THE CADS OF ETON, In handing down to posterity
your multifarious merits and brilliant qualifications, you
will perceive I have not forgotten the signal services and
delightful gratifications so often afforded me in the days
of my youth.
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