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58 described Mr. Verdant Green's rooms as "Third Floor, No. Four Staircase, First Quad," and Mr. Bouncer was next door. The budding Freshman found that "the once whitewashed walls of his own apartments were coated with the uncleansed dust of the three past terms; and, where the plaster had not been chipped off by flying porter-bottles or the heels of Wellington boots, its surface had afforded an irresistible temptation to those imaginative undergraduates, who were fond of displaying their artistic genius in candle-smoke cartoons of the heads of the University, and of other popular and unpopular characters." "The bed," he discovered later, "was very hard; and so small that had it not been for the wall his legs would have been visible, literally, at the foot." But he spent many happy years in those rooms, for all that; and although there are rooms and rooms in the colleges, those of Mr. Green are a very fair average specimen of the lot.

How far "Brazenface" can be identified with "Brazenose," it is not easy to determine, particularly as the ingenious Mr. Larkyns, in showing to Verdant the sights of the City, took him once to Brazenose as to a strange and sister college. But that which Master Green saw of his own Alma Mater in Chapel, in Hall, and in Quadrangle, was very nearly identical with what the visitor sees