| Show An Oxford Oxford d Epigrammatist The grave has lately closed over th the Rev R n. BarU Bartlett tt who was formerly said by his friends to be the most popular man in Oxford and who was I certainly both genial and witty The most original of his sallies was a I skit on the condign punishment of an undergraduate undergraduate un un- who after drinking g too t freely had knocked bad knocked down the the- college porter porter- Why was his time already short Cut prematurely shorter Because Because at first he lie floored the port Arid And then he floored the porter Professor Conington said that it was Bartlett who Invented the word that that now famous equivalent equivalent lent for what in Suffolk is called a ablack ablack ablack black squire The manufacture of this portmanteau word portmanteau woid as' as Lewis Carroll would have termed it is commonly commonly commonly com com- ascribed to Bishop Samuel WIl- WIl The is reported to have playfully styled himself ta a a hop and this may have led to the conjecture that was also iny invented b by him London m.-London London Spectator Spectator ta |
