Downstream

was followed by ‘great fun by
land and water’. Some ‘little
fellows’ had an unusual way
of drying themselves,
‘catching a cow by the tail,
using the towel for a whip,
and making the animal gallop
them about the meadow till
they were dry’.
Within a few years the
arrangements for bathing at
Eton had been further
improved. One pupil
recollected, ‘those boys who