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 or something very much like one. The boots would do all right—but he could omit the lace at the knees—likely would before the end of the first half.

"Milton was nicknamed the 'lady' at college, from his delicate complexion and slight make. He was, however, a good fencer; and thought himself a match for any one.… The elder nephew now came to board with him also; and the household became an 'example of hard study and spare diet.'… He devoted himself to carrying out the system of education described in his treatise of that subject—(Letters to