A Man's Man

A Man's Man

This remark specially applies between the hours of breakfast and luncheon. The courts, with their monastic cloisters and inviolable grassplots, lie basking in a sunny obliviousness to the world outside. Their stately exclusiveness is accentuated rather than diminished by the glimpse of an occasional flying figure in a cap and gown, or the spectacle of a middle-aged female of a discreet and chastened appearance, who glides respectfully from one archway to another, carrying a broom and a tin pail, oralas for the goings-on that a cloistered cell may conceal behind its art-muslin curtains!a tankard containing some gentleman's morning ale. In one corner, close to the Buttery door, you may behold one of the college cats, which appears to be combining a searching morning toilet with [pg4] a course of practical calisthenics; and inside the massive arch of the gateway stands a majestic figure in a tall hat, whom appreciative Americans usually mistake for the Master, but who in reality occupies the far more onerous and responsible post of Head Porter. Perhaps the greatest variation from the normal is to be observed on a Saturday morning. Then the scene is brightened by the vision of an occasional washerwoman, who totters bravely at one end of a heavy basket, what time her lord and master (who has temporarily abandoned his favourite street-corner and donned Sabbath attire for this, his weekly contribution to the work of the world) sulkily supports the other. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 41574
Author: Hay, Ian
Release Date: Dec 7, 2012
Format: eBook
Language: English

Contributors

Illustrator: Flagg, James Montgomery, 1877-1960