eleven, one of the most noted professional cricketers, meeting him in
the street, addressed him confidentially, 'I know, sir, the Bishop of
Melbourne does not approve of cricket for clergymen in public, but if
you would meet me in private at five o'clock to-morrow morning, and
let me give you a few balls, it would be a great satisfaction!'

Some resolution thus was required to prevent cricket from becoming a
tyrant, as so often befalls those whose skill renders them valuable.
Tennis became Coley's chief recreation, enabling him to work off his
superfluous energy at the expense of far less time than cricket
matches require, and in this, as in everything active, he soon
excelled.

As to the desserts upon which the young men in turn were spending a
good deal out of mere custom, harmlessly enough, but unnecessarily;
as soon as the distress of the potato famine in Ireland became known,
Patteson said, 'I am not at all for giving up these pleasant
meetings, but why not give up the dessert?' So the agreement was
made that the cost should for the present be made over to the 'Irish
fund.'

Another friend of this period, now well known as Principal Shairp of
St. Andrews', was then in the last year of a five years' residence.
He has been kind enough to favour me with the following effective
sketch of Coley as an undergraduate:--

'Patteson as he was at Oxford, comes back to me, as the
representative of the very best kind of Etonian, with much good that
he had got from Eton, with something better, not to be got at Eton or
any other school. He had those pleasant manners and that perfect