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How Alfred Tiptop Won The Prize Poem
displayed much exertion tOAvards " settling in life" in any way whatsoever . Before his second term , he was leader of the drag , stroke in the college boat , and had " spoilt" a bargee on the fifth of November . By the end of his first year , he might have been seen sitting in a pleasant set of rooms overhanging the High Streetand looking lazily at the then unfinished spire
, of St . Mary ' s . _ He had certainly never forgotten Leila , and we are more than certain that Leila had never forgotten him . But yet the state of his rooms Avas scarcely such as to indicate the remembrance , or indeed to be very suggestive of feminine influence . Scandal might have draAvn uncomfortable comparisons between
the sporting prints , boxing gloves , foxes' skins , and knock-medowns , that decorated the low-roofed , large-Avindowed apartment , and the hundred pretty trifles that told of Avoman ' s taste in Leila ' s little room at Derwent Lodge . Nor Avas the half-finished tankard of beer suggestive of the quiet cup of tea at eight o ' clock . To judge by the mixture of objects in the roomyou
, would have been at a loss to judge of its owner ' s real occupation . Thucydides , open on a desk , Avas half-covered by Bell ' s Life . A lot of odd kid gloves , looking a great deal too small for any gentleman ' s hand , Avere kicking about in an emptied cigar-box ,
into Avhich a figure of Punch , in pasteboard , was stuck . Two tame hawks in a cage Avere evidently annoyed by the deprivation of light , caused by a Turkish dressing-gown having been throAvn over it ; and a couple of terriers Avere playing Avith a five ' s-ball . The pictures and ornaments were equally miscellaneous .
Winners of the Derby Avere placed vis-a-vis to Botwier ' s prettiest rusticities ; Kiss ' s Amazon Avas placed in front of a yet unframed "Vierge et I'Enfant" after Raphael ; a debardeur of Jullien ' s looked complacently at a grinning nut-cracker ; and a "Madonna" cast her eyes in the direction of the "Death of the Stag . "
As to the chimney-piece , it was a perfect museum . Halfpence , clay pipes , meershaums more or less coloured , Svriss chalets made of chip , China dogs , comic songs , daguerreotypes , bits of biscuit , ends of cigars , seals , penknives , tickets for the Mendicity Society , invitation cards , scratches in pen and ink , mostly partaking of the caricature stylelucifer matchesshirt buttons ,
, , Avafers , and a thousand other things , apparently put there in a hurry , and left to accumulate in undisturbed tranquillity , formed a chaotic assemblage , Avhich it would have taken a week ' s ingenuity to arrange . The pianoforte Avas covered Avith music—vocal and instru-
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
How Alfred Tiptop Won The Prize Poem
displayed much exertion tOAvards " settling in life" in any way whatsoever . Before his second term , he was leader of the drag , stroke in the college boat , and had " spoilt" a bargee on the fifth of November . By the end of his first year , he might have been seen sitting in a pleasant set of rooms overhanging the High Streetand looking lazily at the then unfinished spire
, of St . Mary ' s . _ He had certainly never forgotten Leila , and we are more than certain that Leila had never forgotten him . But yet the state of his rooms Avas scarcely such as to indicate the remembrance , or indeed to be very suggestive of feminine influence . Scandal might have draAvn uncomfortable comparisons between
the sporting prints , boxing gloves , foxes' skins , and knock-medowns , that decorated the low-roofed , large-Avindowed apartment , and the hundred pretty trifles that told of Avoman ' s taste in Leila ' s little room at Derwent Lodge . Nor Avas the half-finished tankard of beer suggestive of the quiet cup of tea at eight o ' clock . To judge by the mixture of objects in the roomyou
, would have been at a loss to judge of its owner ' s real occupation . Thucydides , open on a desk , Avas half-covered by Bell ' s Life . A lot of odd kid gloves , looking a great deal too small for any gentleman ' s hand , Avere kicking about in an emptied cigar-box ,
into Avhich a figure of Punch , in pasteboard , was stuck . Two tame hawks in a cage Avere evidently annoyed by the deprivation of light , caused by a Turkish dressing-gown having been throAvn over it ; and a couple of terriers Avere playing Avith a five ' s-ball . The pictures and ornaments were equally miscellaneous .
Winners of the Derby Avere placed vis-a-vis to Botwier ' s prettiest rusticities ; Kiss ' s Amazon Avas placed in front of a yet unframed "Vierge et I'Enfant" after Raphael ; a debardeur of Jullien ' s looked complacently at a grinning nut-cracker ; and a "Madonna" cast her eyes in the direction of the "Death of the Stag . "
As to the chimney-piece , it was a perfect museum . Halfpence , clay pipes , meershaums more or less coloured , Svriss chalets made of chip , China dogs , comic songs , daguerreotypes , bits of biscuit , ends of cigars , seals , penknives , tickets for the Mendicity Society , invitation cards , scratches in pen and ink , mostly partaking of the caricature stylelucifer matchesshirt buttons ,
, , Avafers , and a thousand other things , apparently put there in a hurry , and left to accumulate in undisturbed tranquillity , formed a chaotic assemblage , Avhich it would have taken a week ' s ingenuity to arrange . The pianoforte Avas covered Avith music—vocal and instru-