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"Surgebat Macnevisius / Et mox jactabat ultro, / Pugnabo tuâ gratiâ / Feroci hoc Mactwoltro. " / Etonian
There is a certain sort of fellow -- we who are used to studying boys all know him well enough -- of whom you can predicate with almost positive certainty, after he has been a month at school, that he is sure to have a fight, and with almost equal certainty that he will have but one. Tom Brown was one of these; and as it is our well-weighed intention to give a full, true, and correct account of Tom's only single combat with a schoolfellow in the manner of our old friend Bell's Life, let those young persons whose stomachs are not strong, or who think a good set-to with the weapons which God has given us all an uncivilized, unchristian, or ungentlemanly affair, just skip this chapter at once, for it won't be to their taste.