But he don't; he encourages them.

Didn't you see him out to-day for half an hour watching us ?" (loud cheers for the Doctor); "and he's a strong, true man, and a wise one too, and a public-school man too" (cheers), "and so let's stick to him, and talk no more rot, and drink his health as the head of the house." (Loud cheers.) "And now I've done blowing up, and very glad I am to have done.

But it's a solemn thing to be thinking of leaving a place which one has lived in and loved for eight years; and if one can say a word for the good of the old house at such a time, why, it should be said, whether bitter or sweet.

If I hadn't been proud of the house and you--ay, no one knows how proud--I shouldn't be blowing you up.

And now let's get to singing.