The reader may be left to fill in and expand this brief sketch of an interview between one of the tutors of University College and the freshman, who acknowledged that the same tutors were 'very civil' to the undergraduates of the college. However, filled in and expanded, it must remain the account of an interview, in which the tutor, behaving with proper considerateness, and in no degree going outside the lines of his official duty, was treated with freedom, bordering on gross impertinence, by the pupil. Can anyone peruse the brief account without coming to the conclusion that Shelley gave and meant to give Hogg the impression, that he had treated the tutor saucily, _smoked_ him elegantly (if I may use a word of obsolete slang), or, as school-boys would say, 'cheeked him' to his face. Of course Shelley's words come to us through Hogg, who is stigmatized as a treacherous and false friend by the 'Shelleyan enthusiasts.' But even they will admit that Hogg (with a personal interest in making the world imagine that the authorities of University College treated him and Shelley with unprovoked harshness) was not likely to misrepresent Shelley in this particular matter to his disadvantage. Having discovered that the tutors of University College were 'dull people,'--a sentiment in which his familiar friend concurred,--Mr. Bysshe Shelley reminded Hogg on a subsequent occasion how very dull they were. Hogg was looking over one of his friend's Latin exercises, a translation into Latin of a portion of a paper in the _Spectator_, when he drew Shelley's attention to 'many portions of heroic verses, and even several entire verses,' observing that they were 'defects in a prose composition.' Smiling archly, the freshman replied in his peculiar piercing whisper, 'Do you think they will observe them? I inserted them intentionally to try their ears! I once showed up a theme at Eton to old Keate, in which there were a great many verses; but he observed them, scanned them, and asked why I had introduced them? I answered, that I did not know they were there; this was partly true and partly false; but he believed me, and immediately applied to me the line, in which Ovid says of himself: "Et quod tentabam dicere, versus erat."'