And clothes came home to mend, and new and nice knitted socks went now and then to replace the worn ones; but that commerce was not frequent nor large; where there was so little to make, it was of necessity that there should not be too much to mend; and alas! if shirt- bosoms gave out, the boys buttoned their coats over them and studied the harder.

There were wants they did not tell; those that were guessed at, they knew, cost many a strain at home; and were not all met then.

But they had not gone to Shagarack to be' smart,' -- except mentally.

That they were.
They were favourites, notwithstanding.

Their superiors delighted in their intellectual prominence; their fellows forgave it.