Thursday December 3rd

. Wood showed me the Epilogue and we with some difficulty made out some of the more abstruse jokes. Some of the Epilogue is very good though some of the jokes are very ‘small beer’. ‘D─üvus sum non Davis’ is understandable only to a very small portion of the audience. H. J. Davis was a very nice Home-boarderite and when we were in Fox’s together I liked him very much. Then he got into College, was taken up by people who should have known better, spoilt, became too big for his shoes and conceited absurdly about his not first-class boxing and left without taking his election to spend his money on fancy waistcoats and cr├¬pe de Chine ties chosen with not remarkably good taste!