If space permitted I could mention numerous cases in which famous professors have been treated like schoolboys by the German Statetheir stern father and master.]

IV.: I have not forgot How thou didst love thy Charles, when he was yet A prating schoolboy: I have not forgot The busy joy on that important day, When, childlike, the poor wanderer was content To leave the bosom of parental love, His childhood's play-place, and his early home, For the rude fosterings of a stranger's hand, Hard, uncouth tasks, and schoolboys' scanty fare.

And at the fall, With usual gall, The schoolboys call, "Third down; two feet to gain.

It was written by Nicholas Udall, master of Eton, and later of Westminster school, and was first acted by his schoolboys some time before 1556.

It is quite a common thing for schoolboys to be persecuted or even dismissed for showing Slovak proclivities or even talking their mothertongue "ostentatiously" on the street.

But the younger generation had been profoundly affected by the Croatian dictatorship and the Balkan wars; at an age when our youth think of nothing but cricket and football, the students and even the schoolboys of Croatia, Dalmatia, and Bosnia became engrossed in political speculation, brooded over the wrongs of their disunited race, and dreamt of Serbia as the new Piedmont of the Balkans.

Indeed, I think a good many of them were schoolboys.

But we further endow the State with a personality we can almost see and handle, and we regard it as something that is able not only to protect our peace but to shed a reflected splendour on ourselves, giving us an importance not our ownjust as schoolboys glory in their school, or Churchmen in their Church, or cricketers in their county, or fox-hunters in their pack of hounds.

One might as well ask a lot of schoolboys to a big "shoot," as issue indiscriminate invitations to fish.

We are like schoolboys with eyes out at the windows, drawn by some rattle of drum and squeak of fife, who would study, were they but deaf.

In those trances, I saw, as it were, our pleasant village green, all sparkling again with schoolboys at their pastimes; then I fancied them gathering into groups, and telling the story of the murder; again, moving away in silence towards the churchyard, to look at the grave of poor Bradley.

And not a tithe of any of this war class of schoolboys will ever go to the universities now, not a tithe of the war class of undergraduates will ever return.

At first they took it as a lark, like schoolboys.

A group of glad schoolboys came by: Said they, "So it seems, that to-day, Miss Vain carries marks At which the dog barks, And that make sober Long-Ears to bray.

"Why, 'tis the very heaven of schoolboys; yet the schoolboys, on their holiday, employ themselves in games".

"Why, 'tis the very heaven of schoolboys; yet the schoolboys, on their holiday, employ themselves in games".

Lord R's remarks were commonplace enough, though some of his theories were new, but, I think, not truee.g., that encouraging emulation in schoolboys, or desiring that they should make a good position in life, was un-Christian.

That would answer well, so far as concerns the boy, you knowbut consider your Papa, learning lessons in a row of great inky schoolboys!

* Teddy's friendship had seemed to be definitely won on an occasion which brought home to one the quaint resemblance between the codes and ways of dogs and those of schoolboys.

Schoolboys have limited imaginations.

The young wife, who I must say is the daughter of a penniless country clergyman with a large family, was radiant; the Major was quietly and undemonstratively pleased to see me; the veil of the years fell off, and I found myself back on the old easy terms with him, as when we were schoolboys together thirty years ago.

He remained a jolly schoolboy till the end of his University days, and then he went back to the society of schoolboys.

His songs are well known, such as "I am a friar of orders grey", and there are few schoolboys who have not sooner or later made the acquaintance of his "Amo, amas, I loved a lass".

The other measured seven inches, and resembled in shape a small fish at home, known to all schoolboys as the prickle-back; it was curiously marked, having five spots nearly black on each side, near the ridge of the back; the ground around them was a dark glossy brown; the belly was a slightly shining white, reaching as far up as the lower line of the eye and the margin of the spots.

We were told that a few days before, five or six schoolboys had unobserved stolen in here, and amused themselves by going from step to step on these machine-like rocking stairs, in pitchy darkness, but at last they knew not rightly which way to go, up or down, and had then begun to shout and scream lustily.