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the Army and Navy of the country are the
capitals that crown the superstructure, combining the ornamental with
the useful.
III.
FIRST ABSENCE, OR THE SONS OF OLD ETONA ANSWERING
MORNING MUSTER-ROLL. 25 A view of the school-yard, Eton, at
the time first Absence is called, and just when the learned Doctor Keat
is reviewing the upper school. (Portraits.)
IV.
THE OPPIDAN'S MUSEUM, OR ETON COURT OF CLAIMS AT
THE CHRISTOPHER. 49 Bernard Blackmantle and Robert Transit
sitting in judge- ment after Election Saturday, apportioning the
remuneration money to the different claimants of the surrounding
trophies.
V.
ETON MONTEM, AND THE MOUNT, SALT HILL. 96 An accurate
sketch of this ancient customary procession made upon the spot.

VI.
THE FIRST BOW TO ALMA MATER. 113 Bernard Blackmantle's
Introduction to the Big Wig on his Arrival at Oxford.
VII.
FLOORING OF MERCURY, OR BURNING THE OAKS. 131 A
scene in Tom Quadrangle, Oxford.
"If wits aright their tale of terror tell, A little after great Mercurius fell,
***
Gownsmen and Townsmen throng'd the water's edge To gaze upon the
dreadful sacrilege:
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------there with drooping mien a silent band Canons and Bedmaker
together stand:--
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In equal horror all alike were seen, And shuddering scouts forgot to cap
the Dean."
VIII.
COLLEGE COMFORTS. 151 Taking possession of your rooms.
Bernard Blackmantle taking possession of his rooms in Brazennose.
Scout's list of wants. Standing the quiz of the Togati Visible
propensities of your predecessor. The day of purification.
IX.
CAP-ING A PROCTOR, OR OXFORD BULL-DOGS DETECTING
BRAZENNOSE SMUGGLERS. 152 Tom Echo and Horace Eglantine
lowering the plate-basket, after the College-gates are closed, to obtain a

supply of fresh provision, are detected by the Proctor and Town
Marshal with their Bull-Dogs: in their alarm the basket and its contents
are suddenly let fall upon the Proctor, who is not able to under- stand
the joke.
X.
THE ARRIVAL, OR WESTERN ENTRANCE INTO COCKNEY
LAND. 164 Portrait of high and low life Dandies and Dandysettes.
XI. THE GREEN-ROOM OF THE KING'S THEATRE, R NOBLE
AMATEURS VIEWING FOREIGN CURIOSITIES. 198 Portraits of
ten noble and distinguished patrons of the opera, with those of certain
daughters of Terpsichore.
XII. THE ROYAL SALOON IN PICCADILLY, OR AN HOUR
AFTER THE OPERA. 205 Heartly, Lionise, and Transit in search of
Character--The gambling Parsons--Legs and Leg-ees-Tats men and
touters-- Moll Raffle and Bang.
XIII.
OXFORD TRANSPORTS, OR UNIVERSITY EXILES. 235
Albanians doing penance for past offences. A Scene sketched from the
Life. Horace Eglantine is proposing "the Study of the Fathers," a
favourite College toast, while Tom Echo is enforcing Obedience to the
President's proposition by finishing off a Shirker. Dick Gradus having
been declared absent, is taking a cool nap with the Ice-pail in his arms
and his head resting upon a Greek Lexicon: in the left hand corner may
be seen a Scout bearing off a dead Man, (but not without hope of
Resurrection). Bob Transit and Bernard Blackmantle occupy the
situation on each side of Dick Gradus; in the right-hand corner,
Horace's servant is drawing the last Cork from the parting bottle, which
is to welcome in the peep o' day. Injustice to the present authorities it
should be stated, that this is a Scene of other limes.--Vide A.
XIV. SHOW SUNDAY, A VIEW IN THE BROAD WALK, CHRIST
CHURCH MEADOWS, OXFORD. 244 Portraits of the Togati and the

town, including big wigs, nobs, and dons. Among the more
conspicuous are Dr. Kett, Lord G. Grenville, Dr. Grovesnor, Alderman
Fletcher, and Mr. Swan.
XV. TOWN AND GOWN. 246 Battle of the Togati and Town Raff of
Oxford, a night scene. --Bernard and his Friends, Horace and Tom,
distributing among the Bargees of St. Clement's.
XVI.
BLACK MATINS, OR THE EFFECTS OF LATE DRINKING UPON
EARLY RISERS. 269 A Most Imposing Scene.-Time seven o'clock in
the Morn- ing, the last bell has just tolled, and the University Men have
just turned out, while the hunting-frock, boots, and appear- ance of
some of the party, proclaim that they have just turned in; all are eager
to save fine and imposition, and not a few are religiously disturbed in
their Dreams. The admirable disorder of the party is highly illustrative
of the Effect produced by an Evening Wine Party in College Rooms.
XVII. GOLGOTHA, OR THE PLACE OF SCULLS. 272 Tom Echo
receiving sentence of Rustication. The Big Wigs in a Bustle. Lecture on
disobedience and chorus of the Synod. Reports from the Isle of Bull
dogs. Running foul of the Quicksands of Rustication after having
passed Point Failure and The Long Hope. Nearly blown up at Point
Nonplus, and obliged to lay by to refit.
XVIII. THE EVENING PARTY AT THE PAVILION, BRIGHTON.
(BY O. M. BRIOHTY.) 296 Interior of the Yellow Room--Portraits of
His Majesty, the Duke of York, and