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Phat the divil is that t' you? he sez how manny more toimes 'ud I be rready? he sez

'Will ye be quiet' sez the cawbogue wid th' pistle. 'I'll disqualify ye' he sez 'for th' impidence av ye' he sez.

Thim that th' lad coaxes joins in an 'tis a case av who can be th' wurrst at th' swearin—

Thin him wid the pistle up and sez "I'll be firin th' pistle at ye" he sez "if ye don't be quiet" he sez

Th' crewsers in th' boat dhraws up an apology in writin' and thin th' rrace can be started—

Each man puts his oor in th' water and pulls like thunder and turrf an' thim that referees plunges along av th' bank adjournin' th' bhoys to be makin' th' boateen a prisint av th' inferrnal ragions

Be gob an' sich talk goes on as wud burrn th' earrs off av a Cashel pig-dhriver

Th' referees has note books an' puts down all that th' coaxin' men says' an' him that says th' most swear wurrds is, amid high feelin' an' higher eggs, dejooced to be th' winner av' th' rrace

"But," said Mr McKenna, "one would suppose that th' arrchbishup wouldn't be afther beatin' th' Harrvard bhoys at th' swearin'? Shure his riverince wouldn't be swearin' at all."

"There ye arre," said Mr Dooley with an aggrieved expression or his countenance, "there ye arre, 'tis like ye Jawn to be umphirin' at a prayer meetin' be vulgar fractures

Av coorse th' arrchbishup wouldn't be swearin at all tis th' yoong accolades that does ut all, an' his riverince is sittin' in an arrm chair in th' boateen dispinsin' thim ow th' bad wurrds as they come out; an' 'tis that harrd wurrk," continued the Philosopher, "that th' ould bhoy was dhruv home in an ambulathor afther th' rrace."

Thin wan o' thim that was rrowin' fur Harrvard seen an orange floatin' by in th' river-Hol' on? he sez 'hol' on, till I get a suck at th' orange, I'm thurrsty' he sez

'Phat d' ye mane'? sez th' Captin av th' boateen 'stoppin' us this way' he sez, an' wid that hits th' yoong lad over th' physog wid his oor to quiet him

Be this toime th' arrchbishup and his blaspheemious blaguarrds havin' got out av sight, the bhoys stopped fur a dhrink. an' th' rrace was as good as over

After Mr McKenna had gone Mr Hennessy leant forward and said to his friend, "who arre th' Cantabs at all, I dinnaw"? "No more do I" said Mr Dooley

J. M.

FROM OMAR KHAYYÁM.

I SOMETIMES think that never blows so red
The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled;
That every Hyacinth the Garden wears
Dropt in her Lap from some once lovely Head.
E. FITZGERALD.

CHIDÉ ARÉ VOLSHITIKA RÓMANI CHIB.

I láli Ruzha lálidér dikél,

'Pré Chik kai Králisesko Rát perél;
I pârni Rūzha 'ré Bârresti 'doi

Kai komonéstar kamlo Shero 'vél.

D. MACALISTER.

VOL. XXVIII.

M

Obituary.

ROBERT TAYLOR M.A.

Robert Taylor M.A., who died on 21 April 1906, at Naples, was the fifth son of the late Richard Taylor, of Abbey Foregate, Shrewsbury. He was born on 17 January 1835, and from 1846-54 was educated at Shrewsbury School, where he rose to be a praepostor under Dr Kennedy. Among his immediate contemporaries were the present Dean of Lichfield, H. C. Raikes, afterwards Postmaster-General, and A. W. Potts, first Headmaster of Fettes College. He went up to Magdalene College, Cambridge, in 1854, with an exhibition.

When, in 1856, the East India Company threw open its service to general competition, Robert Taylor entered, and passed 20th in the second batch of "Competition Wallahs," as non-Haileybury men were called in India.

He spent his first year's service in Calcutta, which he reached in November 1856, and was then transferred to Benares. While stationed there he was sent up the River Gogra by steamer to open navigation and to report on the channel, for which work he received the thanks of the Government. He served on several other stations in the North-West-now the United-Provinces, until, in October 1860, he obtained his transfer from the Judicial to the Financial Department, and was sent to Lahore as Civil Paymaster.

While at home on two years' furlough (1866-68) he went up to Cambridge, completed his residence, and took his degree, having migrated to St John's College. On his return to India he served as Deputy Accountant-General for Bengal, 1869-70; and officiating Accountant-General for the Punjab, 1870-72. In this year he was transferred to Madras for a short time as Governor of the Bank of Madras, afterwards being employed on bank tours and inspections till 1874, when he was appointed Inspector of Local Offices of Account in Bengal, which post he retained till he retired in 1877, on account of ill-health.

Having some knowledge of heraldry, Mr Taylor prepared the coats of arms for the Native knights at the Investiture of the Order of the Star of India, held in 1874 on the occasion of the

Duke of Edinburgh's visit. In 1875 he was commissioned by the Government of India to prepare additional coats of arms for the visit of the Prince of Wales, and again the next year for all the Ruling Chiefs of India for the Grand Delhi Durbar of 1877. For this work, which entailed much research, the Government of India accorded him its thanks and the Delhi Gold Medal. This "Princely Armory" was published in 1877, and again in 1903, after the Coronation Durbar, by the Government of India.

On 10 September 1874 Mr Taylor (having returned on special leave) was married at St Alkmund's Church, Shrewsbury, to Ellen, daughter of the late William Hawkins, of Dinthill, near Shrewsbury, by whom he had three children. She died in Rome in 1903. On his retirement he had first settled in Clifton, but six years later took a house in the Cotswolds, whence in 1894 he moved to Ealing. He was seriously ill in the summer of 1905, and spent the early spring of the present year with his son in Egypt, where he seemed to have regained his health. On his return he met with an accident in disembarking at Naples, and died two hours later in the Pellegrini Hospital. He is buried there in the British Cemetery.

Any memoir of Robert Taylor would be incomplete if it made no mention of his religion. Though by no means given to religious expressions or talk, his wise counsel, his unfailing kindness to all, and, above everything, his lifelong devotion to duty, all sprang from the firm faith in Christ on which his whole life was based. Further he was one who made lifelong and sincere friends rather than many acquaintances, and he constantly impressed on his children and others the great importance of choosing friends carefully if the friendship were to last and be helpful. He was one of those men (who in India have not been few) who served his country with "the patient strength that is too proud to press, the duty done for duty, not reward," and to whom this country owes much of her empire over

seas.

REV CANON HENRY THEODORE EDWARD BARLOW M.A.

I did not know Barlow as an undergraduate, for when I first met him he had already taken his degree, but the acquaintance formed towards the end of my first year soon ripened into a warm friendship, and I have the happiest memories of him as a Bachelor in residence, as Tutor of Ayerst's Hostel, as Domestic

Chaplain to the Bishop of Sodor and Man, and Principal of the Bishop Wilson Theological College, as Junior Dean and as Rector of his two country parishes of Marwood (1900) and Lawford (1902).

Two walking tours abroad, severe tests of any friendship, served only to cement ours, and it is with feelings of affection and regard that I now try to record my impressions of my friend.

Of Barlow's reading I knew but little. The son of a distinguished Johnian, the present Dean of Peterborough, a University Prizeman and Exhibitioner of the College, he aimed high and worked hard, and it was a great disappointment to him that, though an Exhibitioner and a Naden Divinity Scholar of the College and a University Prizeman like his father, he never succeeded in gaining a first class in any of the three triposes for which he entered. When the College, in after years, made him Junior Dean and appointed him to lecture in Ecclesiastical History, he always felt keenly the want of a better degree, and his position amongst the fellows of the College, holding no fellowship himself.

When I first knew him in 1887 he was reading for the 2nd part of the Theological Tripos and busy, as he always was, with everything connected with the boats. Illness in childhood had left him with a weak heart, and he was unable to row himself, but he had a profound respect for "the rowing man," and threw all his energies into the affairs of the Lady Margaret Boat Club and was a painstaking coach. He had rowed in the Third May Boat of 1883, and he tried to row again when Tutor of Ayerst, but it was too much for him, and he had to give it up. Curiously enough he was never very much at home upon the water; he could not swim and was nervous and timid to a degree. He was similarly nervous with regard to fire, and it is all the more striking that when a serious fire broke out at Bishop's Court in the Isle of Man, it was due to Barlow's conspicuous pluck and resourcefulness that a great disaster was averted.

He took a prominent part in the formation of the Amalgamation in 1886 and in the freeing of the Boat Club from the debt into which it had run. His keen letter signed apтокоTOÇ (Eagle, 1887) shows how deeply he had the interests of the Club at heart and how he longed to see fresh vigour restoring it to its rightful place upon the river. October 1888 brought stormy days in boating circles, and in the revolutionary movement which

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