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 aversion to it, lest I should disoblige the only friend I had in the world. But thisresolution was soon dropt, at the advice of our usher, who assured Mr. Bowling, it would be a thousand pities to baulk my genius, which would certainly, one day, make my fortune on shore. Upon which, this generous tar determined to give me university education; and accordingly settled my board and other expences, at a town not many miles distant, famous for its colleges, whither we repaired, in a short time. But before the day of our departure, the schoolmaster laid aside all decency and restraint, and abused me in the grossest language, as a wicked, profligate, dull, beggarly, miscreant, whom he had taught through charity. This brutal behaviour made me think it high time to be revenged of this insolent pedagogue. Having consulted my adherents, I found them all staunch in their promises to stand by me; and we formed a scheme, which was as follows: In the afternoon preceding the day of our departure for the university, I was to take the advantage of the usher's going out to make water, and shut the great door, that he might not come to the assistance of his superior. This being done, the assault was to be begun by my spitting in the master’s face; I was to be seconded by two of the strongest boys in the school, and we were to drag him to a bench, over which he was to