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CHARLES LARKYNS brought to an end the tale he had unfolded concerning Mr. Smirke, of Balliol, little Mr. Bouncer complied with his guest's request to fill his tankard, and said, "I shall meet Smirke to-night at Effingham's Little-go Wine. I hope he 'll be fun."

"What did you mean," whispered Verdant Green to his old friend, "by saying that you gave the wet men callidum-cum, and had frigidum-sine yourselves?"

"It 's the short for hot-with and cold-without, my lad," replied Charles Larkyns. "Now that you 've come to Oxford, you 'll live and learn in a variety of ways."

"I have found that out already, have n't I?" said Verdant to little Mr. Bouncer, who knew that he referred to his Derby book and to Mr. Blucher Boots's dark horse.