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The following account of Disraeli's schooldays, given by one of his school-fellows, is quoted by Sir William Fraser: 'I cannot say that Benjamin Disraeli at this period of his life exhibited any unusual zeal for classical studies; and I doubt whether his attainments in this direction, when he left the school for Mr. Cogan's at Walthamstow, reached higher than the usual grind in Livy and Cæsar.
Fraser and the other officers of the expedition joined in arguing with them and recalling them to their senses. Finally each member of the party swore a solemn oath before Almighty God that they would sooner perish than forsake in distress any of the crew in the present voyage. After this ceremony was over all hands dressed in their best apparel, and each took charge of his own bundle.
Fraser, tells me that by my looks and speaking he cannot think me so ill as imagined. You will think the same by my writing the above. It is a satisfaction to me to have been able to write this letter, such as it is. And now I have nothing but Compts. and love to send to all my friends to Robie Hepburn as my oldest and nearest my heart my blessings to his family, as to the Kers and Congaltons.
They were now, however, less than a mile from the south fork of the Fraser; the men carried the canoe on their shoulders across the intervening neck of swamp, and at last the explorers 'enjoyed the inexpressible satisfaction' of finding themselves on the banks of a broad, navigable river, on the west side of the Great Divide.
A large hall opened into a living room and a dining room, by means of large double doors, which had been drawn back, so as to make one room of them. As they pushed their way through the crowd of rough young fellows who clustered round the door, as if afraid their escape might be cut off, Fraser observed that the floor was already crowded with dancers.
In 1904, the Russo-Japanese War was concluded, and Fraser and Warren received a year's notice from the Midland Insurance Co. that they must vacate their premises on the fifth floor of Nos. 88-90 Chancery Lane.
"Some sassy sergeant'll shoot your fiend of a nag," said the storekeeper, "and the rattlers'll be requested to devour one another. He knows suggested it himself that I'm to be helped out by some of you fellows." "Well, that's better!" returned Fraser, relieved. And while they walked back and forth, he launched into a defence of his pets. "'Fiend of a nag," he quoted.
Precautions were taken to prevent any dangerous communication with the continent; a committee was appointed to put the kingdom in a posture of defence; to exercise the powers of the regency in securing the enemies of the government; and the earl of Home, with sir Peter Fraser and sir Æneas Macpherson, were apprehended and imprisoned.
It may be sufficient to say here that the landmarks of the period, in point of the birth of papers, are, besides the two above mentioned, the starting of the Quarterly Review as a Tory opponent to the more and more Whiggish Edinburgh in 1809, of the Examiner as a Radical weekly in 1808, of Blackwood's Magazine as a Tory monthly in 1817, of the London Magazine about the same time, and of Fraser in 1830.
Fraser cautiously, and ascertained that the girl's name was Helen Fraser, and that she was Angus's niece. "Her father and mother are dead and we've brought her up. Helen's a good girl in most ways a little obstinate and sulky now and then but generally she's steady enough, and as for work, there ain't a girl in Bay Beach can come up to her in house or field.
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