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out of it. a I low did you feel, Mr. President/' said Sir (?. Dasent afterwards, " when the man bit your hand?" bl> \Vliy, at lirst, sir," said the President, fcb I felt considerably alarmed ; for ! was unaware., sir, what: proportion of human virus mii»'ht have been communicated by the bite ; but in the interval of reaching the house, I was convinced that the proportion of virus must, have been very small indeed: then I was at rest, hut, sir, I had the bite cauterised." It was often observed of Dr. Routh that he never appeared on any occasion without his canoniea.ls, which he wore constantly. Some ill-disposed undergraduates formed a plan which should force him to break this habit, and fu'ointu; under his window at midnight, they shouted l>" Fire/' The President appeared hinni'tUntt'lf/ and in the most terrible state of alarm, but in full canonicals,
It- was only f»»rty-ei(u'ht hours before Dr. Uouth died that his powers hej^an to fail. He ordered his servants to prepare rooms for a. Mr. and Mrs. rholmnndeley, who had been loni*" since dead, and then they felt sure the end was come. They tried to ire! him upstairs to bed, but he strutted with ihe banisters as with an imaginary enemy, lie then spoke of pedigrees, and remarked that a Mr. Ivhvanls was descended from two royal families: he just murmured something about the American war, and then he expired. He left his widow very ill provided fur* but tin* college ^ave her a handsome income.
On reaching home in the summer of 1854, all the anxieties of the previous winter about my mother'snds Whewell ind Sedgwick — my dear friend Faraday — my very cele->rated uncle, and my also celebrated brother,' than to attend ;o the Professor himself, who was exhibiting photographs >f the scenery and geology of the moon."hioiM*<i vi'iit*fatit>n fur rauk, and Iff. Kuril KjL^iiioiit off