William Cotton Oswell, hunter and explorer; the story of his life, with certain correspondence and extracts from the private journal of David Livingstone, hitherto unpublished; . ,activity and fearlessness which made him facile princepsamong his contemporaries. I dont believe he ever strucka small boy or even spoke to one in anger. And so therewas no drawback to the enthusiasm with which onewatched him leading a charge at football, or bowling in abig side match, or jumping two or three pegs higher onthe gallows than any other boy. He cleared eighteen feetnine inches in Clifton brook, which mea
William Cotton Oswell, hunter and explorer; the story of his life, with certain correspondence and extracts from the private journal of David Livingstone, hitherto unpublished; . ,activity and fearlessness which made him facile princepsamong his contemporaries. I dont believe he ever strucka small boy or even spoke to one in anger. And so therewas no drawback to the enthusiasm with which onewatched him leading a charge at football, or bowling in abig side match, or jumping two or three pegs higher onthe gallows than any other boy. He cleared eighteen feetnine inches in Clifton brook, which means, as you know,twenty feet from take-off to landing. No doubt his good 56 WILLIAM COTTON OSWELL looks added to the fascination ; he stood six feet high inhis stockings when he left school, at eighteen, but did notlook his height from the perfection of his figure—broad inshoulders, thin in flank, and so well developed that he wascalled The Muscleman. I will give one instance of his early prowess in do not know what the record has been in late years, butin my time Parr was the only man who was ever known tohave thrown a cricket-ball a hundred yards both THE PLAYING FIELDS, RUGBY. No record was kept here, but this I saw Oswell do : Froma group of boys at a wicket on Little Side ground as itthen was, he threw a cricket ball over, as I believe, or atany rate through, the great elms (which were then standingin a close row at right angles to the school buildings) intothe Doctors garden, for there it was picked up. Measureit how you will, that throw must have been considerablyover a hundred yards. He left a great blank in the schoollife when he left. EDUCATION : RUGBY AND HAILEYBURY 57 W. Cotton Oswell to his Aunt Louisa Cotton. Rugby, April 20, 1835. . . You had a great share of my late thoughts, Ihave sat nearly half an hour since writing the last half-sheet. For I being, like a fool as I am, rather dull, wasthinking of those pleasant days which by your kindness
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