This is a society that has existed in the town of Cambridge for ages, whose functions consist in _wearing the linen of the students who lodge in their houses after it has been cast off for the laundress_. This same individual, however, had a taste for higher game, and one of the students, who had rooms in his house, being called to London for a few days, returning rather unexpectedly, actually found mine host at the head of the table, in his sitting-room, surrounded by some twenty _snobs_, his friends. Our gownsman very properly resented his impertinence, took him by the collar and waist, and, in the language of that fine old song, goose-a-goose-a-gander, "_threw him down stairs_." The rest of the party prudently followed at this hint, leaving the table covered with the remains of sundry bottles of wine and a rich dessert. Thus the affair terminated at that time: but our gownsman being a man of fortune, and one of those accustomed, therefore, to treat his brother students, his friends, sumptuously too, went two or three days after, to his fruiterer's, to order DESSERT FOR TWENTY. "The same as you had on Wednesday?" inquired the fruiterer. "On Wednesday!" he exclaimed with astonishment,--"I had _no_ dessert on Wednesday!" "Oh, yes, sir," was the rejoinder, "Mr. ---- himself ordered it for you, and, as I before said, for twenty!" The whole matter was soon understood to be, that the lodging-house keeper had actually done him the honour to give his brother snobs, of the _dirty shirt fraternity_, an invite and sumptuous entertainment at his expense! Of course, he did not remain in the house of such a _free-and-easy-gent_. I name the fact as a recent occurrence, and A HINT FOR GOWNSMEN. But this is not the only way in which they are fleeced: the minor articles of _grocery_ are easily appropriated: nay, not only easily appropriated, but a _duplicate_ order is occasionally delivered _for the benefit of the house_. Some tradesmen have made MARVELLOUS STRIDES ON THE ROAD TO WEALTH, From various causes. I remember one man who, in six years, beginning life at the _very beginning_, saved enough to retire upon an independence for the rest of his life. Did he _chalk double_? I answer not. But students should look to these things. At St. John's College, Cambridge, the tutors have adopted an excellent plan by which, with ordinary diligence, cheats may be detected: they oblige the tradesmen to furnish them with duplicates of their bills against the students, one of which is handed to the latter, and any error pointed out, they will be _forced_ to rectify. ANOTHER SPECIES OF FRAUD