Reminiscences of Oxford . f the poor in Oxford. Eor the last ten yearsshe was bedridden ; when I saw her shortlybefore her death, in 1882, she told me howthe aged Cardinal, a isiting Oxford, had climbedto her room and sate long beside her bed,affectionately recalling old times and passed the bridge and tower, thePhysic Garden open on your left; for thenondescript residence built by Daubeny had notthen risen, and the Professor, Dr. Wilhams,lived in the large house facing Rose were not as yet inAcnted, and invery dry weather the street was ii-rigated fromits five or
Reminiscences of Oxford . f the poor in Oxford. Eor the last ten yearsshe was bedridden ; when I saw her shortlybefore her death, in 1882, she told me howthe aged Cardinal, a isiting Oxford, had climbedto her room and sate long beside her bed,affectionately recalling old times and passed the bridge and tower, thePhysic Garden open on your left; for thenondescript residence built by Daubeny had notthen risen, and the Professor, Dr. Wilhams,lived in the large house facing Rose were not as yet inAcnted, and invery dry weather the street was ii-rigated fromits five or six fire-plugs—we remember 7 ft.—commencing at Magdalenelms. A sheet of canvas with a wooden fi-amewas laid across the gutter, and the waterturned on until it swelled into a pool, thenwith curious dexterity dashed in all directionsby means of enormous wooden shovels. Thegate of Magdalen ^Aas Jacobaean, of debasedstyle, but more in harmony Avith the Collegethan any of its successoi-s ; adjoining it was. iMm m^-^?J( ^cm^j^yt^ o^^^ From an Engraving after a Water-Colour belonging to the Family. WALK ABOUT ZION. 217 a remnant of the old MaiidaK^i 11 all, used asrlie choristers school, with a iiiodej-ji coltagoinhabited by the College mancijDle Stephens,most Waltonian of Oxf(3rd anglers, knowingevery spot in Cherwell, Upper Isis, Wind rush,where a skilfully dropped gudgin wouldcapture perch or pike. Past the stables, whereMagdalen schoolroom stands, was a vast shabbyinn, the Greyhound. Under one of the trees,then in the perfection of their stature, satealways an aged woman, Mother Jeffs, selling-tarts and fruits, last of a famous sisterhoodwhose names and effigies suivive out of thehoary past. There was Mother Louse, whoseportrait by Loggan is a prize to jnint collectors,the latest woman in England to wear a Iuff ;Mother George, who at more than a hundredyears old would, on payment of a shilhng,thread a needle without spectacles; MotherGoose the flower-seller, p
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