e.
offering a bet that no would give any man as far as "Pontius
Pilate," and beat him before he got to the "resurrection of
the dead."
24 Dead Men--Empty bottles.
25 Scapula, Hederic, and Lexicon, the principal
Dictionaries in use for studying Greek.
~136~~ Over the fire-place hung a caricature portrait of a well-known
Bachelor of Arts, drinking at the _Pierian spring, versus_ gulping down
the contents of a Pembroke _overman_,{26} sketched by the facetious
pencil of the humorist, Rowlandson.
[Illustration: page136]
ECCE SIGNUM.
I could not help laughing to observe on the one side of this jolly
personage a portrait of the little female Giovanni Vestris, under which
some wag had inscribed, "_A Mistress of Hearts_," and on the other
a full-length of Jackson the pugilist, with this motto--"A striking
likeness of a fancy lecturer."
26 An Herman--At Pembroke, a large silver tankard, holding
two quarts and half a pint, so called from the donor, Mr.
George Overman. The late John Hudson, the college tonsor
and _common room man_,{*} was famous for having several
times, for trifling wagers, drank a full overman of strong
beer off at a draught. A Tun, another vessel in use at
Pembroke, is a half pint silver cup.
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