And eke of wit, mirth, puns, and pleasantry, was the famous Dr.
Aldrich, Dean of Christ Church, Oxford, the never-to-be-forgotten
composer of the good old catch--
"Hark, the merry Christ-Church bells,"
and of another to be _sung by four men smoking their pipes_, which is
not more difficult to sing than diverting to hear. His pipe was his
breakfast, dinner, and supper, and a student of Christ Church, at 10
o'clock one night, finding it difficult to persuade a "freshman" of
the fact, laid him