This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 Excerpt: ...and the adjacent portion of the washing-place.1 Towards the east, that is, on the Seminary side, the boundary wall was in a line with that which encloses the garden in the same direction, and therefore not at right angles with the house, which it met nearly on the site of the modern Prefects' Room. The playground thus ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 Excerpt: ...and the adjacent portion of the washing-place.1 Towards the east, that is, on the Seminary side, the boundary wall was in a line with that which encloses the garden in the same direction, and therefore not at right angles with the house, which it met nearly on the site of the modern Prefects' Room. The playground thus roughly defined had only two divisions, the Higher Line on the left and the Lower Line' on the right of one coming from the house. The surface of the former was diversified by sundry grass plats, one, of irregular form, extending across it almost from the green to the garden.3 Beyond this ran "Bond Street," a broad walk which formed a favourite lounge, and was much frequented. Beyond this again, and against the boundary wall, was a row of gardens belonging to various boys. Each was held by two or three owners in common, and each of these could devise his rights to one individual, there being nothing to prevent the same person acquiring shares in several gardens. Some of these were cultivated with great care and taste, while others were much neglected. Others, again, became notable for reasons other than horticultural. One in particular, situated near the centre of the line, in which the most conspicuous plant was an emblematical green baytree, became the theatre of meetings of the Young Ireland Party, who used there, as Mr. Waterton puts it,4 "to amuse themselves by talking of O'Connell and Repeal, and spouting blarney." This plot of ground was, in consequence, dubbed the "Haggory" (dyopd), or the "Repeal." Between the Lines ran the Prefects' Walk, almost on the present division between Higher Line and Third Playroom." This walk was a little above the level of the ground on either side. At its extre...
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