So dreadful his bristle-back'd foe did appear, You'd have sworn he had got the wrong _Pig by the ear_, But instead of avoiding the mouth of the beast, He ramm'd in a volume, and cried--_Græcum est_. Derry down, &c. In this gallant action such fortitude shown is, As proves him no coward, nor tender Adonis; No Armour but Logic; by which we may find, That Logic's the bulwark of body and mind. Derry down, &c. Ye Squires that fear neither hills nor rough rocks, And think you're full wise when you out-wit a Fox; Enrich your poor brains, and expose them no more, Learn Greek, and seek glory from hunting the Boar. Derry down, &c. * * * * * CLEAVING THE BLOCK, Is another custom that either _was_, or _is_, annually celebrated at Queen's College, Oxford, not _pro bono publico_, it seems, but pro bono _cook-o!_ and has a reference, probably, to the exploit in which Milo "proved but an ass," as observed in the second line of the third verse of the foregoing song. _On dit_, every Christmas, New Year's, or some other day, at that season of the year, _a block of wood_ is placed at the hall-door, where the _cook_ stands with his _cleaver_, which he delivers to each member of the College, as he passes out of the Hall, who endeavours, at _one_ stroke, to sever the block of wood; failing to do which, he throws down half-a-crown, in which sum he is _mulct_. This is done by every one in succession, should they, as is invariably the case, prove themselves asses in "cleaving of blocks." But should any one out-Milo Milo, he would be entitled to all the half-crowns previously forfeited: otherwise the whole _goes to the cook_. * * * * * THE MISFORTUNE OF BEING LITTLE. Lord Byron has said, that a man is unfortunate whose name will admit of being _punned upon_. The lament might apply to all peculiarities of person and habit. Dr. Joseph Jowett, the late regius professor of civil law at Cambridge, though a learned man, an able lecturer, one that generously fostered talent in rising young men, and a _dilettante_ musician of a refined and accurate taste, was remarkable for some singularities, as smallness of stature, and for gardening upon a small scale. This gave the late Bishop Mansel or Porson (for it has been attributed to both, and both were capable of perpetrating it) an occasion to throw off THE FOLLOWING LATIN EPIGRAM: Exiguum hunc hortum Jowettulus iste Exiguus, vallo et muriit exiguo: Exiguo hoc horto forsan Jowettulus iste Exiguus mentem prodidit exiguum. IN ENGLISH, AS MUCH AS TO SAY: A _little_ garden _little_ Jowett had, And fenced it with a _little_ palisade: Because this garden made a _little_ talk, He changed it to a _little_ gravel walk: And if you'ld know the taste of _little_ Jowett, This _little_ garden doth a _little_ show it.