hands upon a fly ejaculated x it is very difficult said y with the air of a man who had never tried the last experiment and i have now learned for the first time why the lower orders put their knives in their mouths the principal spectacle of the day was now the four public schools of and had each sent its of eleven apiece to contend for the shield each school had its own uniform and all seemed full of anxiety and de corps the mothers and sisters of these young gentlemen also in great numbers and their heightened colour and eager eyes not only the interest they felt in the but were also exceedingly becoming chairs where allotted to the ladies in the best places to command a view of the proceedings and behind them stood the vast throng of male spectators the first range at by lights and shadows which the boys were to was only two hundred yards so that the could almost be noted without the aid of the s flags these were of three colours white to an outer striking the outside division of the and counting one blue for a centre counting two and red and white for a bull s eye counting three the young stepped out one by one from their took aim with as much deliberation as they pleased and having fired waited with straining eyes and parted lips for the flag to appear from behind the s butt if it was a centre there was a murmur of well done or but if it was a bull s eye there was a round of kid glove hand clapping a waving of embroidered handkerchiefs from the ladies and a or from the men a more pleasant spectacle can scarcely be imagined and the shooting was exceedingly good the however in whom y took an interest such as i should not have supposed him capable of did not come off by of london life victorious which he took great pains to explain to us was owing to their devotion to th ey have no time to give their attention to rifle practice as these other mere dry bob schools can do you see this enthusiasm in such a man for the place of his education was very striking and strange to me tom having as yet taken no root in young at the next a match was going forward which excited scarcely less interest � the contest between the lords and from the circumstance of the former not having their robes and which had been evidently expected by some of the there was no little dispute as to which branch of the the respective belonged it was a comfort however to feel that one s sympathies could not at the worst be thrown away upon anybody under a member of parliament and we enjoyed the schools which have not the advantage of a river in their neighbourhood vol i h by lights and shadows spectacle from that pious feeling that every transport in the when in presence of persons we did not go it as in the former case but when the first range was done and the lords won it we could not forbear to cheer a little let law religion virtue morals die exclaimed x from a well known poem but leave us stiu our old nobility at the same time added he instead of following them to their next range i think we shall find better fun at the deer this animal being of the same size in iron as the living creature and proceeding by at about the same speed runs to and fro between two of earth for twenty or thirty yards or so and has to be shot in if the should miss it altogether he loses nothing but if he spoils the by it on the by or london life the promptly a blue and white flag and the is for the offence the above seven as well as four others for pool were all close together in that portion of the common which was formerly devoted to and the noise of the was therefore very great a red flag would now and then be set up while the left their places of safety to clean this or that but otherwise the firing was incessant add to this that various were being shot for simultaneously at the remaining thirty or forty and it may well be imagined that common was not sacred to silence the of the bullet however is but the whisper of peace there was nothing in it to my ear at least to mar the exquisite serenity of the surrounding scene immediately beneath us lay park and a far reaching range of pasture and breathing prosperous plenty while in is for an obvious reason the local name for this spot h by lights and shadows the distance hung that mighty cloud which ever over the city in the world and yet almost the only one that has neither wall nor nor even a gate to close in the face of a foe i am glad to perceive that the old have not forgotten their cunning and that the young � for whom in my time eyes had no other meaning than mere � are learning to handle their weapons as they should mused i i never look on yonder town and but like a who on some jewel of his own my mind to the and bars and of itself whether the is in working order there are a hundred and seventy thousand such as these said x and even these are nothing to what you shall see now he led the way to another range where the were shooting at an object which i could scarcely discern with the naked eye this was yards away its dimensions feet by of london by its centre feet square its eye but feet 