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CONTENTS CHAP. I. OF KETILL FLATNOSE AND HIS DESCENDANTS, 9TH CENTURY A.D. II. KETILL AND HIS SONS PREPARE TO LEAVE NORWAY. III. KETILL's SONS GO TO ICELAND. IV. KETILL GOES TO SCOTLAND, A.D. 890. V. UNN GOES TO ICELAND, A.D. 895. VI. UNN DIVIDES HER LAND. VII. OF THE WEDDING OF OLAF "FEILAN," A.D. 920. VIII. THE BIRTH OF HRUT, AND THORGERD'S SECOND WIDOWHOOD, A.D. 923.
the porter? Well, he's one of their principal men. Each college
does its own postal department; and at Merton there are fourteen
postmasters,* for they get no end of letters there."
"Oh, yes!" said our hero, "I remember Mr. Larkyns, - your father, the
rector, I mean, - telling us that the son of one of his old friends
had been a postmaster of Merton; but I fancied that he had said it
had something to do with a scholarship."
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* Exhibitioners of Merton College are called "postmasters."
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[68 ADVENTURES OF MR. VERDANT GREEN]
"Ah, you see, it's a long while since the governor was here, and his
memory fails him," remarked Mr. Charles Larkyns, very unfilially.
"Let us turn down the Merton fields, and round into St. Aldate's. We
may perhaps be in time to see the Vice come down to Christ Church."
"What does he go there for?" asked Mr. Verdant Green.
"To wind up the great clock, and put big Tom in order. Tom is the
bell that you hear at nine each night; the Vice has to see that he is
in proper condition, and, as you have seen, goes out with his pokers
CONTENTS CHAP. I. OF KETILL FLATNOSE AND HIS DESCENDANTS, 9TH CENTURY A.D. II. KETILL AND HIS SONS PREPARE TO LEAVE NORWAY. III. KETILL's SONS GO TO ICELAND. IV. KETILL GOES TO SCOTLAND, A.D. 890. V. UNN GOES TO ICELAND, A.D. 895. VI. UNN DIVIDES HER LAND. VII. OF THE WEDDING OF OLAF "FEILAN," A.D. 920. VIII. THE BIRTH OF HRUT, AND THORGERD'S SECOND WIDOWHOOD, A.D. 923.