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breakfasts. The visitors have mostly gone down
now, so we are not so crowded as last week.

The subject for the Newdigate [underlined] next year:

Gilbraltar. I am in despair, for I can think of
nothing but Gibraltar rock, which Miss
Pringle in Pathhead used to sell.

I hope Father and Mother will enjoy
themselves at the Assembly. I found out a thing
the other day here which Father might be
interested in knowing – that Sir Henry
Moncrieff, whom he talks about, was here at
New College, and was President of the
Union in his day. I don't think I told
you what happened on the last day of the
races. It is the custom for all the crews, as
soon as they come in, to jump out of the
boats and swim to shore. It was a
very strange sight – a whole line of
bobbing heads, and then a number of men