AND HIS FRIEND VERDANT GREEN.
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but armed with a tea-tray and poker. With these he proceeded to a neighbour's bedside, and roused him up to inquire if he was "all ri';" but, being persuaded to
go away, he wandered to another staircase, where he encountered another Balliol man, the Hon. Felix Festoon, son of Lord Garland, ascending the stairs. Mr. Festoon had been at a wine party, and was humming a merry tune, when, with no small dismay, he suddenly came upon the strange apparition which arrested his
