FAGGING JOKES IN THE OLDEN TIME.

Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 90, 13 October 1888, Page 2 (Supplement)

FAGGING JOKES IN THE OLDEN TIME.

At Russby on cold ■winter nights, says a writer in "Murray's Magazine," a big boy would single out some chubby-faced urchin and say to him : " Look here, 1 you young rascal ! you just run upstairs, take your clothes off, and warm n>y bed for me. " This was an excellent joke, but when a boy had warmed two or three cold beds' with his own natural coloric he was scacely in a condition to appreciate it. We cau borrow another instance of the same kind from Winchester. When a fresh faggot has been flung upon the the, and the heat becomes oppressive to the prefects seated near, some junior would be called up to screen their majesties from the blaze. This living firescreen had to keep , revolving, and to pull out his clothes from the more prominent parts of his body to avoid being scorched. But the climax of humorous in- . genuity was reached by the monitors j at Westminster, who on one occasion < chalked out the floor of the dormitory * into the divisions of a draught-board, and played draughts with the fags. When, in the process of the game, one of these live puces had become a king, he bad' to.taka oi>«»tli«i r f a g upon hi" - 1 - •