MR. LABOUCHERE AS AN UNDERGRADUATE.
When Mr. Labouchere was a youth at Cambridge undergoing one of his examinations, he noticed a number of dons prowring 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 wys rewarded by reading, in a large, round hand, the words : “You may be clever, but you can’t cat coke."
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Northland Age, Volume 3, Issue 21, 2 January 1907, Page 6
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