text:  Billiard-rooms were silent save where a solitary marker practised impossible strokes: print-shops exhibited a dull uniformity of stale engravings; and the innumerable horde of mongrel puppies of all varieties that particularly towards the end of term are dragged about three or four in a string and recommended as real Blenheims genuine King Charles's or "one of old Webb's black and tan real good uns for rats"--had disappeared from public life to come out again possibly as Oxford sausages