The Provost was up to his ears in corres pondence, which he knew he could only just finish in time for the train. There was only one thing to be done. Abruptly cutting short a desperate suggestion from Thomas that he should " run to Tibbotts's, in the 'igh," and order another portmanteau, his master directed him to " send Enderby here at once " ; and in a few minutes the college porter, a man of almost as venerable years as its head, and hardly less emphatically designated by the hand of Nature for his office, obsequiously entered the study. "Enderby," said the Provost, without looking up from his letters, "has any senior Fellow who has gone down left a good-sized and respectable-looking portman teau behind him ? "

" Well, sir," replied Enderby, after a few moments' reflection, " I don't know about the Fellowß who've gone down, but Dr Dodson 'c come up yesterday with a very nice-sized portmanteau, and 'c won't want it again this side of Christmas." "Is it a good one — a new one?" asked the Provost, impatiently. " Not exactly to call noo, sir," was the reply. " Leastways, I think he 'ad it when

Nearly all the children kept by the Poor Law in Scotland and Ireland are boarded out, and in England it is to some extent adopted. Dr Barnardo, who boards out 15,000 or 16,000 children yearly, considers it is the best plan of dealing with pauper orphans.
