Produced by Lesley Halamek, Malcolm Farmer and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI VOLUME 105, JULY 29TH 1893 _edited by Sir Francis Burnand_ MUSCULAR EDUCATION. [Illustration] Mr. PUNCH has much pleasure in recommending the following Prospectus to the notice of parents desirous of finding a thoroughly practical school where boys are educated according to the real requirements of modern life. CLOANTHUS HOUSE, MARKET DREPANUM, OXON. Mr. J. PEN-RULLOX, M.A. Cambs., and the Rev. WILFRID BAILS, B.A. Oxon, receive pupils to prepare for the great public schools and universities. The well-known qualifications of Mr. PEN-RULLOX, who rowed stroke in his university boat in the celebrated race at Amwell in 1878, and of the Rev. Mr. BAILS, who played for Oxford in the famous university match in the Common Fields in 1882, will be sufficient guarantee that the boys will be thoroughly well instructed. Besides Rowing, Cricket, and Football; Swimming, Racquets, Boxing, and Hockey, are specially attended to by competent Assistant-Masters, under the personal supervision of the Principals. Billiards, Lawn-tennis, Poker, Nurr and Spell, and some other minor games, now too frequently neglected in the education of youth, will find their due place in the curriculum of Cloanthus House. It is in contemplation, should a sufficient number of boys show a marked inclination for such studies, to engage a Board-school Master, of approved competence, to direct literary and scientific work. Terms, inclusive, £250 per annum, payable in advance: the only extras at present being Reading, Writing, Polo, and Arithmetic. Reference is kindly permitted to the following:--The Right Rev. the Bishop of ISTHMIA; the Editor of the _Sporting Life_; the Rev. R. E. D. HORGAN, M.A., Jesurum Col., Cambs; the Sports Editor of the _Field_; the Warden of Mortlake College, Putney; Dr. S. A. GRACE, LL.D.; the Hon. and Rev. HURLINGHAM PEEL. * * * * * THE BITTER CRY OF THE BROKEN-VOICED CHORISTER. (_A long way after Tennyson._) Break, break, break, O voice on that clear top C! And I would that my throat could utter High notes as they used to be. O well for old BUNDLECOOP'S boy That he still shouts his full round A! O well for that tow-headed lad That he sings in his old clear way. And the anthems still go on With boy-trebles sharp and shrill; But O for _my_ "compass," so high and grand, And the voice that I _used_ to trill! Break, break, break, Like a creaky old gate, top C! But the high treble notes of a voice that is cracked, Will never come back to me! * * * * * QUEER QUERIES.