Well, then (I speak for self and comrades present), This acting pays us well; we find it pleasant. If at the same time it amuses you, We reap a double gain vouchsafed to few, To please ourselves and please our neighbours too. Besides, to-night in more material sense, It pays us well in shillings, pounds, and pence. Your dollars flush our regimental till, But in more sterling coin we’re richer still: Yes, doubly, trebly, rich in your goodwill. And so farewell! but stop, before we part, We’ll sing one song and sing it from the heart. Just one song more: you guess the song I mean: Our brave time-honoured hymn, ‘God save the Queen.’” He continued also to act as mentor to his younger brothers, two of whom went in due course to Cambridge, and, to his great delight, pulled in their college racing boat (Trinity Hall), which was then at the head of the river. He often visited them at Cambridge, and, whenever he could manage it, would spend some part of the vacation with them, joining them in all their amusements, and helping them in their studies. You may judge of the sort of terms they were on, by this extract from a letter to his mother in August 1856:— “We shall be very happy to join you in Scotland. I want to know whether _good_ fishing tackle is procurable at Stirling, or in the neighbourhood of Callender. At Edinbro’ and Glasgow I know it can be obtained, and much cheaper than in London. Perhaps Harry can inform me, if he is not too much occupied in discovering the value of χ, which I believe is the great object of mathematics (I speak it not profanely). Tell Harry and Arthur I expect to find them both without breeches. ‘Those swelling calves were never meant To shun the public eye,’ as Dr. Watts remarks, or would have remarked if he had written on the subject.”