He, at least, could not venture, like a
distinguished headmaster, to preach and publish sermons on "Boys' Life:
its Fulness." A schoolmaster who has boarders is a hotel-keeper, and
thereby makes his income, but he need not keep a hotel which would be
dispraised in guide books. Dinners are a branch of school economy which
should not be left to the wives of schoolmasters. _They_ have never been
boys.
FOOTNOTES
{1} "Mauth" is Manx for dog, I am told.
{2} It is easy to bear the misfortunes of others.
{3} In the third volume of his essays.
{4} "I remember I went into the room where my father's body lay, and my
mother sat weeping alone by it. I had my battledore in my hand, and fell
a-beating the coffin and calling 'Papa,' for I know not how, I had some
slight idea that he was locked up there."--STEELE, _The Tatler_, June 6,
1710.
{5} Longmans.
{6} I like to know what the author got.
{7} Salmon roe, I am sorry to say.
{8} "Why and Wherefore," Aytoun.
{9} _Fersitan legendum_, "Help Thou."
{10} I know, now, who Miriam was and who was the haunter of the
Catacombs. But perhaps the people is as well without the knowledge of an
old and "ower true tale" that shook a throne.
{11} Cannot the reader guess? I am afraid that I can!
{12} Edinburgh, 1685.
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