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187 Provost, and admired the legs of the Bishop of Chester. It seems very odd being in college, and still more being in two colleges. I am living in Trinity where I am only an Honorary Fellow; not in Oriel, where I am a real Fellow; but as yet I feel more at home where my actual and my old associates are. Then the question comes, 'Where shall we dine?' And I suppose that Oriel, strictly the College of our Lady, comes nearer the notion of The Salutation Inn than Trinity does; moreover it seems that I shall gain half a crown every time that I dine in Oriel, while I shall certainly pay something every time I dine in Trinity; yet, somehow, I fancy Trinity most."

Not long after this Freeman occupied the house No. 16 St. Giles Street; dining in either college, and telling his occasional guests, with a humorous twinkle of his eye, that he not only had the pleasure of entertaining them at Oriel, but was well paid for the privilege, in the silver coin of the realm. Such it is to be a Fellow of Oriel. What is now left of St. Mary's Hall (otherwise "Skimmery" in the vernacular), built on the site of the Parsonage of St. Mary the Virgin, is on the east side of Oriel Street, back of the High Street, as one turns toward Oriel College. It is older than Oriel, but it has always been, more or less,