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Rh was an adjective, accusative, feminine; and declined it for him—clus, cla, clam; after which the examiner declined to receive Ellison's further shots."

"I hear, too," said Charles Larkyns, as he puffed at his long "Churchwarden" clay," that Broughton, the



gentleman-commoner of Worcester College, has been ploughed for his Greats. You know his way of answering, in his hesitating way? 'It is—aw—generally—aw—thought—aw,—that' so-and-so; just as though he had carefully digested all the known authorities on the subject, and gave the result of their opinions to the