be much prolonged--we have to go down to answer our names, and shout "Here!" to the presiding monitor as he calls out all the list. In how many different keys did the "Here!" resound in the echoing hall. Every age, from nine to nineteen, sent forth its different-toned answer; there was the off-hand "Here!" of the regular elder boy; the gasping "Here!" of the youth who is always too late for everything, and who by rushing in, crushing endless toes in his progress, is but just in time to escape a heavy imposition; the timid "Here!" of the little boy, who fears to listen to his own voice, and seems startled at having had the courage to speak at all; and the dull, absent "Here!" of the student, who considers these musters as grievous interruptions, and wonders how any one can ever be expected to write a Latin essay, who has to be continually answering to his name. Then there is the trembling, guilty "Here!" of some one who is taking advantage of the dusky evening to answer to the name of a friend, and who pays a severe penalty for his good nature if he is found out, as is generally the case; and lastly,

there is the "Here!" of our waggish friend, repeatedly nightly in every different key, often in the tones of another voice wonderfully well mimicked, but always sure to elicit roars of laughter from the assembled house, and to receive, if not to merit, a severe reproof: not to mention a rough handling after the calling over

is done.

Then we must forget home and hampers for a time, as all to-morrow's lessons must be learned; the two occupants of the study may now be seen lying in every variety of posture, from that of the baboon in his cage, to that of a Yankee in his native land, while hard lines are learned, or difficult problems solved. Harby men don't work much, but they work hard; and for real hard work to be seen in perfection, a study in our house, between eight and nine in the evening, may be recommended as a good "point de vue."

Chamont.

CHAPTER XIII.

AN EXCEPTIONAL CASE.

"Audi alteram partem."

"There is no color of reason that makes for him. Had he discharged the trust committed to him With that experience or fidelity

He practised heretofore, it could not be."

MASSINGER'S Unnatural Combat.

DURING the early part of my stay at Harby there was a most disagreeable monitor, and as he exercised a very considerable influence over my happiness, and was the cause of the only unjust licking I ever received, I ought to mention him; especially as he was an instance of misplaced authority, and of power abused for oppression. He was a tall boy, or rather a young man, six feet high; for he was one of the oldest in the school, as well as one of the elders of it, having

been there many years. Legends told how, a long time ago, he had been dreadfully bullied, and had been tied up in a sheet, with only his night-shirt on, and hung out on an iron peg, which was still visible near the window of a bedroom, about forty feet above the courtyard; how he had been the butt of the school for his ignorance, and the laughing-stock of the house for his peculiarity of speech, as he stammered badly. For boys are very ungenerous, or at least inconsiderate, of others' feelings; they certainly do make the most of any natural defects or small misfortunes, when they can make them the means of annoyance: I remember how perseveringly I was quizzed for my pronunciation of certain words.

Since the date of these legends, however, things had completely changed, and our tall friend, having passed through the intermediate stage of big bully, had become a very strict and severe monitor. He had separated himself entirely from his former friends, and seemed almost to have none but a few younger ones from among the fags; whom he seemed to take much interest in, and whom he helped on with their lessons. His bedroom was

well but very severely managed: lights were put out at proper hours, and talking was extremely savagely punished; his fags were in great awe of him, and took especial care of his study and its appurtenances: in short, he was a martinet. Happily he did not play at cricket, so we were at least saved that hard fagging for one whose every word was either a command or a reprimand, and to serve whom was much more like slavery than duty.

About the time I allude to, he took a very vehement dislike to a small knot of insignificant boys who herded much together, and were setting themselves up a good deal, partly on account of their extremely gentlemanlike manners, as they imagined, and their universally clean and smart appearance, and partly on the strength of an infantine debating society which they had started. I was one of the clique myself, and may candidly confess to have partly deserved the opinion which the martinet-monitor publicly expressed of us, to the effect that we were "a set of little stuckup fools, spending much more money than we ought, and that we must be taken down, and