But before I sit down I must give you a toast to be drunk with three-times-three and all the honours.

It's a toast which I hope every one of us, wherever he may go hereafter, will never fail to drink when he thinks of the brave, bright days of his boyhood.

It's a toast which should bind us all together, and to those who've gone before and who'll come after us here.

It is the dear old School-house--the best house of the best school in England!" My dear boys, old and young, you who have belonged, or do belong, to other schools and other houses, don't begin throwing my poor little book about the room, and abusing me and it, and vowing you'll read no more when you get to this point.

I allow you've provocation for it.