21 Littlego Vale--orderly step to the first examination. 22 Pindaric heights--study of Pindar's odes. 23 Temple of Bacchus--merry-making after getting a liceat. 24 Region of rejoicing--joy attendant on success in the schools. 25 District of sabers--track of those who sap at their quarto and folio volumes. 26 Dodd's sound--where the candidate will have to acknowledge the receipt of a certificate empowering him to float down Bachelor Creek. 27 Cam Roads--retreat to Cambridge by way of a change. 28 Bay of Condolence--where we console our friends, if plucked, and left at a nonplus. 29 A well-known bookseller in Oxford generally called imposition G-, from his preparing translations for the members of the university. 30 Imposition--see prick bill. ~156~~ visit from the _prick bill_."{31} "Agreed," said Eglantine, "and Blackmantle and myself will, in the meantime, visit Sadler, and engage a couple of his prime hacks to accompany you." 31 Prick bills--at Christ Church, junior students who prick with a pin the names of those gentlemen who are at chapel. Immediately after the service, the bills, with the noblemen and gentlemen commoners' names, are taken to the dean; those with the students and commoners' names, to the acting censor for the week; and the bachelors' bills to the sub-dean, who generally inform the prick bills what impositions shall be set those gentlemen who absented themselves from chapel: these are written upon strips of paper and carried to the gentlemen by the prick bill's scouts. Copy of an original imposition. "Sp 259 particular M M C. P. B."--Signifies translate No. 259 Spectator to the word "particular" by Monday morning at chapel time.--Prick bill. [Illustration: page156] [Illustration: page157] THE EXCURSION TO BAGLEY WOOD. Oxford Scholars and Oxford Livery Men--How to insure a good Horse and prevent Accidents--Description of Bagley Wood--A Freshman breaking cover--Interview with the Egyptian-- Secrets of Futurity unveiled--Abingdon Beauties--Singular Anecdote and History of Mother Goose. ~157~~ The ride to Bagley Wood introduced me to some new features of a college life, not the least entertaining of which was the dialogue before starting between my friend Eglantine, the livery-stable keeper, and his man, where we went to engage the horses. Eglan. (to the ostler) Well, Dick, what sort of a stud, hey? any thing rum, a ginger or a miller, three legs or five, got by Whirlwind out of Skyscraper? Come, fig out two lively ones. Dick. I mun see measter first, zur, before I lets any gentleman take a nag out o' yard. It's more as my place is worth to act otherwise.