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Let's try 'em on! Try 'em on I'm to be colonel. lst Boy. And I lieutenant. 2nd Boy. And I ensign. 3rd Boy. And I college salt-bearer. 4th Boy. And I oppidan. 5th Boy. Oh, what a pity I'm in mourning. Several speak at once. And we are servitors. We are to be the eight servitors. Wheel. And I am to be your Captain, I hope. Come on, my Colonel. My lord, you are coming? Rory.
But now oppidan life extended beyond these walls; and houses, streets, villas and gardens spread into the plain on all sides. Broad, white roads ran to Southberry Junction, ten miles away; to manufacturing Irongrip, the smoke of whose furnaces could be seen on the horizon; and to many a tiny hamlet and sleepy town buried amid the rich meadowlands and golden cornfields.
It was decided that I also should go to Eton, but as an oppidan, and becoming already a partisan of my own part of the school, I often now disputed conclusions or questioned facts in my tutor's school anecdotes, which commonly tended to the sole glorification of the "collegers." I must not omit to mention an interview that about this period took place between my father and Mrs. Bundle.
There are no registers of oppidans before the end of the last century; but the Provost of Eton has been good enough to search the college lists from 1715 to 1735, and there is no record of any Henry Fielding, nor indeed of any Fielding at all. It may therefore be concluded that he was an oppidan. Maxwell Lyte's history of the College.
His home life, then, during the latter part of his Eton schooling would be under Lady Gould's care; and was probably spent at Salisbury. Of his Eton life, from his entrance at the school, when twelve years old, we know practically nothing. From the absence of his name on the college lists, it may be inferred that he was an Oppidan.
'That the most popular oppidan of his day should have utterly ignored the supposed inferiority of the less wealthy section of the school, and looked on worth and high character as none the worse for being clothed in a coarse serge gown, is a fact seemingly trivial to ordinary readers, but very noticeable to Eton men.
"Mr. Vince, Ensign. "Mr. Young, College Salt Bearer; white and gold dress, rich satin bag, covered with gold netting. "Mr. Mansfield, Oppidan, white, purple, and orange dress, trimmed with silver; rich satin bag, purple and silver: each carrying elegant poles, with gold and silver cord. "Mr. Keity, yellow and black velvet; helmet trimmed with silver. "Mr.
It was when fixing a day for coming up to town on this account that he mentioned the occurrence of the previous year in a letter to his father: 'I have a great object in shirking the oppidan dinner. I not only hate the idea of paying a sovereign for a dinner, but last year, at the cricket dinner, I had a great row, which I might possibly incur another time, and I wish very much to avoid.
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