"He took a modest lodging opposite the Schools, paid his bill at the inn, and went to his apartment with his trunk, his carpet-bag, and not forgetting we may be sure, his other bag.
When he opened his trunk, which the day before he had filled with his best clothes, he found it contained only books, and in the first of them which he opened there was written--
'Clothes for the back, books for the head;
Read, and remember them when they are read.'
And in his bag, when Giglio looked in it, he found a student's cap and gown, a writing-book full of paper, an inkstand, pens, and a Johnson's dictionary, which was very useful to him, as his spelling had been sadly neglected.
So he sat down and worked very, very hard for a whole year, during which 'Mr. Giles' was quite an example to all the students in the University of Bosforo."
The Ballad of the Rose and the Ring William M. Thackeray
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