"Diogenes," said Kink, "is a masterpiece. He begins to growl at tramps when
they're half a mile away. Why is it, I wonder," Kink added, "that dogs
can't abide ragged clothes? This Oxford, they tell me, "is a clever place. I
wonder if anyone here can explain that?"

Mr. Lenox's young brother and his friends had now to be shown the
Slowcoach, which they pronounced "top hole," and then Moses was inspected
in his stable; and, this being done, they were ready for the river--or,
rather, for the ices at a pastrycook's shop in the High Street--called the
High--which were, to precede the river.

Then they all trooped down to the boats and had a perfect hour's rowing;
and then they explored Oxford a little, and saw Tom Quad at Christ Church
(or "The House," as it is called), and were shown the rooms in which the
author of "Alice in Wonderland" lived for so many years; and so right up
through the city to Magdalen Grove, where the deer live, and Magdalen
Tower, on the top of which the May Day carols are sung.

Mr. Lenox's young brother lived in rooms outside his college; he would not
enter the college until next term. They were in Oriel Lane, and exceedingly
comfortable, with at least twenty pipes in a pipe-rack on the wall, and at
least thirty photographs of his favourite actresses, chiefly Pauline Chase,
and five cricket-bats in the corner, and about forty walking-sticks, and a
large number of puzzles of the "Pigs in Clover" type, which nearly drove
Gregory mad while supper was being prepared.

The preparation consisted merely of the entrance of one man after another
carrying silver dishes; for everything was cold, although exceedingly
sumptuous and solid. There were chickens all covered with a beautiful thick