Blenkinsop is leaving Beckford while still a junior and his friends decide to give him a send-off. They decide on a dormitory feast and set about collecting money, writing home for extra cash. They get enough for the feast but the strain of behaving begins to tell ...
| Blenkinsop | a junior Beckfordian, now a curate |
| James Benson | a junior boy |
| Nicholas | a junior |
| Inge | another boy |
| Smith | and another |
| Lucas | and another |
| Perkyn | and one more |
| Mr Jephson | their house-master |
First published August 1904 in the Captain.
'Gentlemen, will you allow me to offer a magnificent banquet?'
- from Gilbert and Sullivan's The Gondoliers.
'Cut the satisfying sandwich, broach the exhilarating Marsala, and let us rejoice today if we never rejoice again.'
- from Gilbert and Sullivan's The Grand Duke.
'Tell me major, are you fond of toffee?' and 'Today he is not well.'
- from Gilbert and Sullivan's Patience.
'Perkyn suspended his Terpsichorean exhibition ...'
- dancing, after Terpsichore, the Greek muse of dance.
See also the page on public schools for general information on life at Beckford's.