The chief amusement of the paper was contained in a "New Code of Regulations for the Better Management of Guinea-pigs and Tadpoles," from the editor's pen. It began thus: "A society has lately been started at Saint Dominic's for the preservation and management of Guinea-pigs and Tadpoles. The following are some of the rules to be observed:-- "Any one owning a Guinea-pig or Tadpole is to be responsible for washing it with soap and hot water at least twice a day. "Any one owning a Guinea-pig or Tadpole is to supply the rest of the school with cotton wool and scent. "No Guinea-pig or Tadpole is on any account to use hair oil or grease which has not been sanctioned by a joint committee of the Fifth, Sixth, and masters. "During the approaching winter, every one possessing a Guinea-pig or Tadpole shall be at liberty, providing it is regularly washed, to use it as a warming-pan for his own bed." The small tribe of furious juniors who as usual had crowded round the paper on the morning of publication to get "first read," broke forth at this point into a howl of exasperation. "They won't! I'll see they won't use me as a warming-pan, won't you, Padger? The brutes! I'll bite their horrid cold feet if they stick them against me, that's what I'll do." "I'll keep a pin to stick into them," said another. "I'll get some leeches and put on their legs," shouted another. "I'll tell you what," said Stephen, changing the subject, "it's cool cheek of them calling us `it,' as if we were things." "So they have," exclaimed Paul; "oh, I say, that's too much; I'll let them know _I'm_ not a thing." "Yes, you are a thing, isn't he, Padger? A regular _it_," exclaimed the vindictive Bramble. "Yah, boo, old `_its_,' both of you." "Hold hard," said some one, just as the usual hostilities were about to commence. "Listen to this." And he read the next "regulation":-- "Immediate steps are to be taken to pickle a Tadpole as a specimen for the school museum. The following is a recipe for this. Take the ugliest, dirtiest, noisiest, and most ignorant specimen that can be found. Lift it carefully with a pair of tongs into a bath full of vinegar. Close the lid and let it remain there to soak for a week. At the end of that time lift it out and scrape it well all over with a sharp substance, to get off the first coating of grime. Soak again for another week and scrape again, and so on till the ninth or tenth coating is removed. After that the creature will appear thinner than when it began. Hang it up to dry in a clean place, and be sure no other Guinea-pigs or Tadpoles come near it. Then put it in a clean gown, and quickly, before it can get at the ink, put it in a large glass bottle and fasten down the stopper. Label it, `Specimen of a curious reptile formerly found at Saint Dominic's. Now happily extinct.'"