CHAPTER I.[Mr. Verdant Green recommences his existence as an Oxford Undergraduate]
CHAPTER II.[Mr. Verdant Green does as he has been done by]
CHAPTER III.[Mr. Verdant Green endeavours to keep his Spirits up by pouring Spirits down]
CHAPTER IV.[Mr. Verdant Green discovers the difference between Town and Gown]
CHAPTER V.[Mr. Verdant Green is favoured with Mr. Bouncer's Opinions regarding an Under-graduate's Epistolary Communications to his Maternal Relative]
CHAPTER VI.[Mr. Verdant Green feathers his oars with skill and dexterity]
CHAPTER VII.[Mr. Verdant Green partakes of a Dove-tart and a Spread-eagle]
CHAPTER VIII.[Mr. Verdant Green spends a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year]
CHAPTER IX.[Mr. Verdant Green makes his first appearance on any Boards]
CHAPTER X.[Mr. Verdant Green enjoys a real Cigar]
CHAPTER XI.[Mr. Verdant Green gets through his Smalls]
CHAPTER XII.[Mr. Verdant Green and his Friends enjoy the Commemoration]

PART II.

[CHAPTER I.]

MR. VERDANT GREEN RECOMMENCES HIS EXISTENCE AS AN OXFORD UNDERGRADUATE.

he intelligent reader—which epithet I take to be a synonym for every one who has perused the first part of the Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green,—will remember the statement, that the hero of the narrative "had gained so much experience during his Freshman's term, that, when the pleasures of the Long Vacation were at an end, and he had returned to Brazenface with his firm and fast friend Charles Larkyns, he felt himself entitled to assume a patronising air to the Freshmen, who then entered, and even sought to impose upon their credulity in ways which his own personal experience suggested." And the intelligent reader will further call to mind the fact that the first part of these memoirs concluded with the words—"it was clear that Mr. Verdant Green had made his farewell bow as an Oxford Freshman."

But, although Mr. Verdant Green had of necessity ceased to be "a Freshman" as soon as he had entered upon his second term of residence,—the name being given to students in their first term only,—yet this necessity, which, as we all know, non habet leges, will occasionally prove its rule by an exception; and if Mr. Verdant Green was no longer a Freshman in name, he still continued to be one by nature. And the intelligent reader will perceive when he comes to study these veracious memoirs, that, although their hero will no longer display those peculiarly virulent symptoms of freshness, which drew towards him so much friendly sympathy during the earlier part of his University career, yet that he will still, by his innocent simplicity and credulity, occasionally evidence the truth of the Horatian maxim,—

"Quo semel est imbuta recens, servabit odorem
Testa diu;"[1]