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Show ACCORDING TO THE WIG. Pedagogue Who Was Governed In His Conduct by the One Ho Wore. (, harlcs Lamb was sent to Christ's hoiipitnl when he wns seven yenrsofngo, tint) carried from tho school so distinct u memory of its masters that 40 years afterward ho could descrlbo them with exactness. Mr. Lucas, his latest biographer, biog-rapher, gives Lamb's account of ono teiudier, Itov. James Boyer: Ho had two wigs, wroto Lamb, both pedantic, but of differing omen, The one soreno, smiling, fresh-powdered, betokening a mild day. Tho other, an old, dlscolered, unkempt, nngry caxon, denoting frequent and bloody execution. Woo to the school when he made his morning nppenranco In his passy or passionate pas-sionate wig. J. B. had 11 heavy hand. Nothing was moro common thun to too him mnke a headlong - entry Into tho schoolroom from his Inner recess or library, nnd with- turbulent eye, singling out a lnd, roar out: "Od's my life, sirrah, I have n great mind to whip you!" Then, with ns sudden sud-den a retracting Impulse, fling back into his lulr, and after n cooling lapse 'of somo minutes, during whlcluill but tho culprit had totally forgotten tlio context, drive headlong out ngaln, piecing out his-Imperfect his-Imperfect sense with tho expletory yell; "And I will, too!" In hts gentler moods ho had rocoursa to an Ingenious method of whipping the boy and rending at tho sumo time n paragraph and a lash between. i.h |