Punch (77.1879)

13 t

PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.

[September 27, 1879.

A ZULU REBUS.-"CIGAR. NET-WOOL. SEE."

FRIENDS AT A DISTANCE.
(Thied Seeies.—Summee.)
CHAPTER YT.

The Etonian—Modern Hoy—Interview—Contrast—Temporis acti—
Style — Old — New — Question — Answer — Long Ago — Dead
Water—More Tennis—Something New—A Match—Fagged—
A Boy again — Gallery — Chaff — Retirement —' Vantage —
Resolution.

I see that the hoy's manner is not without its effect on my host.
He begins to believe I wasn't at Eton. In another second, if this
small boy goes on smiling incredulously, he '11 begin to believe I'm
a humbug—a Mac Humbug—altogether.

Must put Etonian questions to Eton boy, and show I 've been
there.

I say, at haphazard, with a vague memory of the form the question
ought to assume, " "Where are you at ? "

On thinking it over subsequently, I discover that what was in my
mind was, "Where do you 7ceep?"—a Cambridge Undergraduate

Having been at Eton myself, I am enabled to ask him certain expression for "Where do you lodge?" confused with "Whose

questions with an air of an old hand. Not having talked to modern
young Etonians for some time, I am a little at a loss what to say
to him.

My host says tome, "Here's Teddy Mackenzie—he's at Eton.
You "(tome) " were at Eton, weren't you ? "

I say Yes," and look at the small boy, who smiles incredulouslv.
His smile implies "Gammon! You" (meaning me) "weren't at
Eton."

house are you in P "

" Where am I at?" repeats the little Etonian, carelessly cutting
at an imaginary ball with his racket. " What do you mean ?—I'm
at Eton." And again he smiles, more incredulously and supercili-
ously than before, and makes another careless cut at an invisible ball.

Now, did I reply in this manner when I was a little Etonian ?
Wasn't / far more respectful to my elders ? I'm afraid there s a
falling off in this respect—literally m this " respect."