The late musical professor, who was some six feet high, and scarcely inferior in bulk to the famous Essex miller. He had at last so much difficulty in getting in and out of a stage coach, that whenever he went from Oxford to London to conduct the annual performances at St. Paul's, for the benefit of the Sons of the Clergy, which he did for many years _gratis_, his custom was to engage a whole seat to himself, and when once in and seated to remain so till the end of the journey. The fact became known to two Oxford wags, who resolved to _pose_ the Doctor, and to that end engaged the other two inside places, and taking care to be there before him, seated themselves in the opposite corners, one to the right the other to the left, and there the Doctor found them, on arriving to take his place. "How was he to dispose of his _corpus_?" was the query: they had a clear right to their seats, and no alternative seemed left him, as they declined moving, but to place his head in one corner and his feet in the other. At last our Oxonians, having fully enjoyed the _dilemma_ in which they had placed the Doctor, consented to give way, confessed their purpose, and even the Doctor had the good sense to laugh at his own expense. * * * * * GROSS INDEED. When the celebrated Cantab, and editor of _Lucretius_, Gilbert Wakefield, was convicted of a _libel_ before the late Judge _Grose_, who sentenced him to fine and imprisonment, turning from the bar, he said, with the spirit of a Frenchman, it was--"_gross_ indeed." To the same learned Cantab, Dyer attributes the following-- PUN UPON PYE. Being asked once his opinion of the poetry of _Pye_, the then Poet Laureat, his reply was, that he thought very _handsomely_ of some of Mr. P.'s poems, which he had read. This did not suffice, and he was pressed for his opinion of the Laureat-Ode that had just appeared in the public prints. Not having seen it, he desired his friend to read it to him, and the introductory lines containing something about the _singing of birds_, Wakefield abruptly silenced him with this happy allusion to the Laureat's name, in the following nursery rhymes:-- "And when the pie was opened, The birds began to sing: And was not this a dainty dish To set before a king." * * * * * THE CAMBRIDGE FAMILY OF SPINTEXTS Begun with John Alcock, LL.D., Bishop of Ely, and founder of Jesus College. "Garrulus hunc quando consumet cunq; loquaces, Si sapiat, vitet, simul atque adoluerit ætas."