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...successfully the Cerberus with the pile of papers, who could find no flaw in my passport this time. The next man was the Rector, who asked me my name and nationality, having apparently forgotten my previous visit to him, and wrote them into their appropriate places in a large sheet before him, which I afterwards found was a sort of testimonial that I, "vir juvenis ornatissimus," &c., had entered the University and was enrolled among its students. No. 3 asked me the same questions and a choice lot of new ones beside, covering the whole range of my family history...
...Well, just sit down on yourself anywhere, and make yourself homely. If you want something to read, you'll find a copy of Watts's Ballads behind the washstand. Or, if you want something of a religious character, you'll find the last number of my little sheet hanging on the chandelier. You'd better take it and read the 'Familiar Conversions.' They'll enthuse you, my boy. They're taking the world by storm. That's only the third one in that number; there are thirty-nine still to come: The conversion of the Goodie and the Poco...
Lampy unfolded the roll of paper. "This selection," said he, "was handed in by a Freshman who wanted to be an editor. The idea is not original, for it appeared in the last number of my sheet, having previously been worked up in Puck, Punch, the Advocate, and other so-called funny papers...
...wish to again call the attention of our contributors to the fact that their articles must not be written on both sides of the sheet. We also re-state that no anonymous contributions are published...
...When I come to die, let my winding-sheet...