Tom Brown at Rugby. Thomas Smart Hughes

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      [2] A fortiori: for a stronger reason.

[3] Environments: surroundings.

[4] Functionary: one charged with the performance of a duty.

[5] Scatter-brain: thoughtless.

[6] Nŏtable: industrious, smart.

[7] Cardinal: chief.

[8] Drat: plague take.

[9] Bist: art.

[10] Puritan: the Puritans were those who were dissatisfied with the English Church and wished to purify it, as they said, from certain ceremonies. They quite generally gave their children Bible names.

[11] Whey: in making cheese the milk separates, the thick part forming curd, and the watery portion whey.

[12] Pattens: wooden-soled shoes.

[13] Heir-apparent: the legal heir.

[14] Break cover: come out from his hiding-place.

[15] Pillion: a seat, for a woman, attached to the hinder part of a saddle.

[16] Fetish: an idol.

[17] Full-bottomed wig: this was a large wig worn by all men of fashion in the last century.

[18] Valeted: served; (from valet, a gentleman's private servant).

[19] Stickleback: a small fish.

[20] Pop-joying: nibbling by fish.

[21] Float: a cork or bit of wood attached to a fish-line.

[22] Petty sessions: a criminal court held by a justice of the peace.

[23] Dragoons: soldiers who serve on foot or on horseback, as occasion requires.

[24] Old gamester: a person skilled in the game of single-stick or back sword.

[26] Statute feasts: festivals established by law.

[25] Wiltshire and Somersetshire: counties west of Berkshire.

[27] Booths: temporary sheds, etc., for the sale of refreshments, pedlers' goods, and the like.

[28] Cricket: the English national game of ball.

[29] Tutelage: guardianship.

[30] Lancet windows: high, narrow windows of the earliest Gothic architecture.

[31] Pottered: walked slowly, sauntered.

[32] "Cheap Jacks": pedlers.

[33] Legitimate: lawful.

[34] Fairings: ribbons, toys, and other small articles sold for presents.

[35] Buckskins: buckskin breeches.

[36] Top-boots: high boots.

[37] Fustian: coarse cloth.

[38] Stuff: woollen.

[39] Pipe and tabor: fife and drum.

[40] Caravans: show wagons.

[41] Pan-pipe: several pipes or fifes fastened together in a row, and blown by an attendant or "satellite," in the Punch and Judy show.

[42] Purely: nicely.

[43] Minds: remember.

[44] Wench: a young peasant girl.

[45] Martinmas: the feast of St. Martin, Nov. 11.

[46] Aim: intend.

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