In the mean time, Mr. Jolter was desired to write in the masters
name to the commodore, requesting him to remove Tom Pipes from the
person of his nephew, the said Pipes being a principal actor and
abettor in all his malversations; and to put a stop to the monthly
visitations of the mutilated lieutenant, who had never once failed
to use his permission, but came punctual to a day, always fraught
with some new invention. Indeed, by this time Mr. Hatchway was as
well known, and much better beloved, by every boy in the school than
the master who instructed him, and always received by a number of
scholars, who used to attend Peregrine when he went forth to meet
his friend, and conduct him to his lodging with public testimonies
of joy and applause.
As for Tom Pipes, he was not so properly the attendant of Peregrine,
as master of the revels of the whole school. He mingled in all
their parties, and superintended the diversions, deciding between
boy and boy, as if he acted by commission under the great seal.
He regulated their motions by his whistle, instructed the young
boys in the games of hustle-cap, leap-frog, and chuck-farthing;
imparted to those of a more advanced age the sciences of cribbage
and all-fours, together with the method of storming the castle,
acting the comedy of Prince Arthur, and other pantomimes, as they
commonly exhibited at sea; and instructed the seniors, who were
distinguished by the appellation of bloods, in cudgel-playing,
dancing the St.
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