To dive, to fish, or fire; There's few can better time beguile, And none in sporting higher. 24 SLUGS of College, an offensive appellation applied to the fellows of Eton by the townsmen. 25 BENDER, a sixpence. 26 Note from Bernard Blackmantle, M.A. to Shampo Carter and Co. P.T.'s:-- MESSIEURS THE CADS OF ETON, In handing down to posterity your multifarious merits and brilliant qualifications, you will perceive I have not forgotten the signal services and delightful gratifications so often afforded me in the days of my youth. Be assured, most assiduous worthies, that I am fully sensible of all your merits, and can appreciate justly your great usefulness to the rising generation. You are the sappers and miners of knowledge, who attack and destroy the citadel of sense before it is scarcely defensible. It is no fault of yours if the stripling of Eton is not, at eighteen, well initiated into all the mysteries of life, excepting only the, to him, mysterious volumes of the classics. To do justice to all was not within the limits of my work; I have therefore selected from among you the most distinguished names, and I flatter myself, in so doing, I have omitted very few of any note; if, however, any efficient member of your brotherhood should have been unintentionally passed by, he has only to forward an authenticated copy of his biography and peculiar merits to the publisher, to meet with insertion in a second edition. Bernard Blackmantle. Bill Carter is, after all, a very useful fellow, if it was only in teaching the young Etonians to swim, which he does, by permission of the head master. Tile, a hat. ~72~~ Joe Cannon, or my lord's a gun,{27} A regular nine pounder; To man a boat, stands number one, And ne'er was known to flounder. There's Foxey Hall{28} can throw the line With any Walton angler; To tell his worth would task the Nine, Or pose a Cambridge wrangler. Next, Pickey Powell{29} at a ball Is master of the wicket; Can well deliver at a call A trite essay on cricket. Jem Flowers {30} baits a badger well, For a bull _hank, or tyke_, sir; And as an out and out bred _swell_,{31} Was never seen his like. 27 A GUN--"He's a great gun," a good fellow, a knowing one. Joe is a first rate waterman, and by the Etonians styled "Admiral of the fleet." 28 "Not a better fellow than Jack Hall among the Cads," said an old Etonian, "or a more expert angler." Barb, Gudgeon, Dace, and Chub, seem to bite at his bidding; and if they should be a little shy, why Jack knows how to "go to work with the net."