the quadrangle of the Castle, so we went into the middle of the road
and formed a line. Soon a rocket (the signal that the Queen was at
Slough) was let off, and then some Life Guards came galloping along,
and one of them ran almost over me, and actually trod on F---'s toe,
which put him into dreadful pain for some time. Then came the
Queen's carriage, and I thought college would have tumbled down with
the row. The cheering was really tremendous. The whole 550 fellows
all at once roared away. The Queen and Consort nodding and bowing,
smiling, &c. Then F--- and I made a rush to get up behind the Queen's
carriage, but a dragoon with his horse almost knocked us over. So we
ran by the side as well as we could, but the crowd was so immensely
thick, we could not get on as quick as the Queen. We rushed along,
knocking clean over all the clods we could, and rushing against the
rest, and finally F--- and myself were the only Eton fellows that got
into the quadrangle. As we got there, the Queen's carriage was going
away. You may fancy that we were rather hot, running the whole way
up to the Castle, besides the exertion of knocking over the clods and
knocking at doors as we passed; but I was so happy.'

Such is bliss at twelve years old!

The first half-year of 1839 had brought Patteson into the Remove,
that large division of the school intermediate between the fourth and
fifth forms. The work was harder, and his diligence somewhat
relaxed. In fact, the Coley of this period and of a good while later
had more heart for play than work. Cricket, bathing, and boating
were his delight; and though his school-work was conscientiously
accomplished, it did not interest him; and when he imagined himself
to have been working hard and well, it was a thunderbolt to him to
find, at the end of the half-year, that a great deal more had been