Middle Fifth seldom have fags `of their own,' as the captain of their house probably appropriates three or four, and gives the second captain two or three, and so on, and thus uses up the `Lower boys,' before they come to the end of the Upper Fifth. The most unpleasant fagging certainly is behind the `Five's walls.' The old ones, you will find, are between the chapel buttresses in the school yard. You are fortunate in having come up in the middle of the half, because you will have time to become known to fellows, and will be saved a considerable amount of annoyance. If you had come at the beginning of the half, you would have found that the Fifth Form arrived two or three days after you. The next day all the Lower boys are collected together, and are then allotted to the Fifth Form, as I have described. The Fourth Form are made to do the greater part of their lessons under their tutor's eye, but boys higher up in the school do nearly all their work in their own rooms, and only just go over it with their tutor when it is known. This, of course, is a great advantage, as we can learn all our lessons when we like, and are not tied down in any way. "There are two examinations--one from Upper Fourth into Lower Remove; and the second, which is the hardest, from Lower Fifth into Upper and Lower Fifth. A boy takes a step upwards twice a year, unless he should be plucked at one of these examinations; so that suppose he is placed in the Middle Fourth--about the average place occupied by a new boy--it will take him two years to get into Lower Fifth, the ambition of every one, as he is then, as I have said, exempted from fagging. "Every saint's day here is a whole holiday. Saturday is always a half-holiday, and there is one other half-holiday every week; so that the number of hours we are in school is very limited. Yet it is so contrived that we have at no time but a little over two hours to ourselves. On whole holidays there are two chapels--one at eleven o'clock, and another at three o'clock. There is a roll-call at two o'clock, just before dinner, and another at six o'clock.