DIGITISED MANUSCRIPTS

(2 36e.))) greater advantage than when, at the close of their time-honoured Montem Day, he was mixing about among the joyous lads in their fancy costumes on the Terrace at Windsor. On his birthday, in one year, he gave the head-master 230/. to distribute among the scholars; and in the closing years of his life he invited eighty of them, bearing the invitation himself to the school, to a ball given to please the young Princesses at Windsor. On another occasion it happened that two Eton boys, who were staying near Windsor on a visit, met a fresh-looking old gentleman— whom they did not know to be the king—in Windsor uniform, in the forest, who good - humouredly extracted from them an account of themselves. They were going to see the King’s stag-hounds throw off, they said, whereupon the kind stranger said that the King did not hunt that day, but promised to let them know when he did. A few days after, one of the royal yeomen called for the two lads and invited them, on behalf of the King, to see the hunt. On fine summer evenings it was the custom of the King to promenade on Windsor Terrace, surrounded by his numerous children and attended by his household, when all those who enjoyed his friendship, or courted his favour, were allowed to approach him. After promenading the Terrace