In the Bland letters, there is an itemized account of the charges for a colonial boy at boarding school. Master Bland's expenses, when under the tuition of Mr. Clark, amounted to twenty-four pounds, ten shillings and two pence, and include the bills sent in by the apothecary, hosier, linen-draper, music-master and "taylor," and also the charges for "weekly allowance and lent, shugar and black-shoe." The charge for _shugar_ is twelve shillings and ninepence, which seems exorbitant in our day of cheap sweets. Master Bland's second half-year's account charges for "milliner, board, coal and candles, pocket-money and stockener." There is no record of the profit Master Bland received from his schooling abroad, but it is to be feared that he shared the character of his young fellow-countrymen, of whom Jones reports that "they are noted to be more apt to spoil their school-fellows than improve themselves." The wildness of the young colonial students this reverend apologist accounts for very ingeniously, by explaining that the trouble lies in their being "put to learn to persons that know little of their temper, who keep them drudging in pedantick methods, too tedious for their volatile genius." The young Colonial Cavaliers exercised their _volatile genius_ at home as well as abroad, as any one may know who turns the yellow pages of the manuscript college records at William and Mary. Under Stith's presidency we find "Y{e} following orders unanimously agreed to": "1. Ordered y{t} no scholar belonging to any school in the college, of what age, rank or quality so ever, do keep any race horse at y{e} college in y{e} town, or anywhere in the neighborhood, y{t} they be not anyway concerned in making races or in backing or abetting those made by others, and y{t} all race-horses kept in y{e} neighborhood of y{e} college and belonging to any of y{e} scholars, be immediately dispatched and sent off and never again brought back, and all this under pain of y{e} severest animadversion and punishment." A second ordinance forbids any scholar belonging to the college, "to appear playing or betting at y{e} billiard or other gaming tables, or to be any way concerned in keeping or fighting cocks, under pain of y{e} like severe animadversions or punishments."