MR. LABOUCHERE AS AN UNDERGRADUATE.

Golden Bay Argus, Volume X, Issue 88, 7 February 1907, Page 3

MR. LABOUCHERE AS AN UNDERGRADUATE.

When Mr. Labouchere was a youth!' at Cambridge undergoing one of his examinations, he noticed a number of dons prowling about in the hopes of catching someone cheating. So he hastily scribbled a few words upon a sheet of paper, hid it away under his blotter, and ostentatiously referred to it from time to time, with a great parade of looking furtively round to. see that nobody was looking. The trap was. not long in taking effect.} Argus thunderingly inquired what he had there. “Oh ! nothing— at least* only a piece of paper,” stammered the ingenious youth, provokingly,, But the examiner was inexorable. He insisted on looking under the blotter and was rewarded by reading, in a large, round hand, the words : “You may be clever, but you can’t’ eat coke.”