I satisfied my masters and passed my preliminary examination creditably and without difficulty, to my aunt's great delight.

She protested that she was proud of me, and rewarded my diligence and cleverness with a five-pound note.

But after I became a student at Guy's I gave her much trouble, and got myself into some sad scrapes.

I spent her present, and something more, in hiring mounts, for I was passionately fond of riding, especially to hounds, and ran into debt with a neighboring livery-stable keeper to the tune of twenty pounds.

I would sometimes borrow the greengrocer's pony, for I was not particular what I rode, so long as it had four legs.