Tin cans of soup
are drawn up by means of a string from the back windows in
the adjoining street. It is not long since Mr. C- of Christ
Church was expelled for having a dinner smuggled into
college precisely in the manner adopted by Tom Echo.
3 A University man who is visiting in a college of which he
is
not a member.
4 The usual phrase for initiating a freshman on his first
appearance in a party or frisk.
5 Land of Sheepishness--School-boy's bondage.
6 Pupil's Straits--Interval between restraint and liberty.
7 Isle of Matriculation--First entrance into the University.
8 Dad's Will--Parental authority.
9 Port for Stay's--Assumption of commoner's gown.
10 Fields of Temptation--The attractions held out to him.
~134~~ he hopes to make the _Land of Promise_,{11} anchor his bark in
the _Isthmus of Grace_,{12} and lay up snugly for life on the _Land
of Incumbents_."{13} "For heaven's sake, Tom," said I," speak in some
intelligible language; it's hardly fair to fire off your battery of
Oxonian wit upon a poor freshman at first sight." At this moment a rap
at the _oak_ announced an addition to our party, and in bounded that
light-hearted child of whim, Horace Eglantine:--"What, Blackmantle here?
Why then, Tom, we can form as complete a trio as ever got _bosky_{14}
with _bishop_{15} in _the province of Bacchus_,{16}! Why, what a plague,
my old fellow, has given you that rueful-looking countenance? I am sure
you was not plucked upon _Maro Common_ or _Homer Downs_{17} in passing
examination with the big wig this morning; or has Tom been
frisking{18} you already with some of his jokes about the _straits of
independency_{19}; the _waste of ready_{20}; the dynasty of Venus,{21}
or the quicksands of rustication{22}.
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