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"Do come and help me to manage Hazlet," said Lillyston to Julian next morning; "his head has been turned by being plucked for the Little-go, and he's as mad as Hercules Furens." Julian went, and they stayed in Hazlet's room till he had quietly breakfasted.
Plato, for example, who has certainly in the very best translations, quite perceptibly no greater mind than Lord Bacon, Newton, Darwin, or Adam Smith, becomes god-like to all who pass beyond the Little-Go.
His father was compelled to withdraw him from the University, at which he had already had the honor of being plucked for "the little-go;" and the young gentleman, on being asked for what profession he was fit, had replied, with conscious pride, that he could "tool a coach!"
And even now there is a new road about to be begun, which I doubt not would make thee rich in brief space, if thou wert but a sharer therein." "Whither goeth this road?" asked Scapegrace. From the town of LITTLE-GO, by HAP-HAZARD, towards CENT-PER-CENT, and thence to the great city of ELDORADO," answered Stagman. "Thereafter, if the traffic answer, we contemplate a branch rail to UTOPIA."
"It don't matter," said Foker, talking over the matter with Pen, "a little sooner or a little later, what is the odds? I should have been plucked for my little-go again, I know I should that Latin I cannot screw into my head, and my mamma's anguish would have broke out next term. The Governor will blow like an old grampus, I know he will, well, we must stop till he gets his wind again.
His father was compelled to withdraw him from the University, at which he had already had the honor of being plucked for "the little-go;" and the young gentleman, on being asked for what profession he was fit, had replied, with conscious pride, that he could "tool a coach!"
"If you thought more of your future career and less about billiards," Robin pointed out to him, "perhaps you'd get through your Little-go in the course of the next few years. If Pa only had sense I mean if he wasn't so absurdly indulgent wherever you are concerned, he would not have a billiard-table in the house." "You talk like that," retorted Dick, "merely because you can't play."
Lillyston was just on the point of going to see what was the matter when the breathless bedmaker appeared at the door, and said "Oh, Mr Lillyston, sir, do go and look at Mr Hazlet, sir; he's took very bad, he is." "Took very bad how do you mean?" "Why, sir, it's the Little-go, sir, as done it. He's plucked, sir, and it's upset him like.
The Oxford men, fresh with recollections of the little-go, bounded away up the hill on which it lies to the ruin, measured the steps of the theatre, and calculated the width of the scene; while others, less active, watched them with telescopes from the ship's sides, as they plunged in and out of the stones and hollows. Two days after the scene was quite changed.
I will not betray the mistakes he made, or dish up in this place the "crambe repetita" of those Little-go anecdotes, which at this period of the year awaken the laughter of combination-rooms, and dissipate the dulness of Camford life.
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