| Show FAGGING AT RUGBY A system of abue practiced apon tonne scholar A very important custom in which now comara have to ba instructed Is that of fagging they arc purposely allowed a fortnights fort nights grace eliat they may carefully study the duties exacted of them it i with fagging as with football foot ball and haro and its greatest days aro past think of a boy having to warm three or four beds on a cold night by lying in them until tho heat of his body has destroyed their chill and then having to rise at four in tho morning to run two milea to the avon to attend to tho fishing lines of tho form boys and thou to bo back in time for first fancy his being obliged to form one ol 01 of n team of four or twelve in harness to be raced around tho schoolyard school yard or bloc by the of the four in hand club and compelled to make flower beds for tho samo mighty beings having half a spoon and a whole fork for his only garuin tools aud the nowara to bo supplied by fair means or foul t yet theao were a few of tho services expected of faga in tho day abon tharo were giants in the land as a rugby song says now they arc treated with much more leniency only the form boya aro allowed to leavo fag the younger boys must wait on them at breakfast tea and run their errands to tho nearest pastry cook shop clean out their attend to their wants in the dormitories and field for them at cricket As in several other public schools when tho sixth form bov or wanti anything ho calls out F a a g ill answer to which call all the fagging boya most run the last to arrive having to do tho work it i but for a short time fortunately that fagging la really a serious and pcr haax duty for the rule is that during a boya term he must run at the first call during hid second bo need only the second and 0 o on w at tho end of his school year he has comparatively little to do as a fag Eli zowlA in sl since the aitu of and tharo has been dispute as to tho right of abo church in ireland to call sui it was wont to do the church of ireland and not long sinco a prominent official wa taken to by tho church authorities for so doing tim was submitted lo 10 tho law officer of tho crown and lord plunkett tho present arch b chop of dublin ha awn informed abo proper legal ullo of uio ant episcopal Epi copal church in abat tha ot ireland |
