8 CONTENTS 



PAOB 



CHAPTER V . . 63 



Oakfield House Preparatory School Mr J. M. Furness 

 and the Canes " Mother " Davidson Port and Bread 

 and Butter Concerning Rugby Football The Hacking 

 Game I get used to it "Louts " and Rows with them 

 Harry Verelst and the Snowball I see a Man in the Stocks 

 Why not Stocks for Conscientious Objectors? The 

 French Master and his painful Books Head of the School 

 Effects of Get-learning-quick Tuition Mat. Furness 

 "Having it Down " Departure to the Big School 



CHAPTER VI . . . . . 7 1 



First Term at Rugby "Jex" Godley's Fag The 

 Curing of Barker "Orange " Peel's Finance Palmy 

 Days of Rugby Cricket Upper Middle I. Death of my 

 Father Return to School Catering Arrangements 

 "Mindar" and his Song Rugby Football All must 

 come House Runs House Washing First Experiences 

 of "Froddy" Natural Science and Modern Languages 

 despised First House Supper Departure of Demigods 



CHAPTER VII . . . . . .80 



In the Upper School "Plug" Batley transplants the 

 big Tree Irascible Powell Stuart Wortley Learning 

 German Through the Lower Fifth into the Fifth Death 

 of my Mother Through the Fifth into the Twenty My 

 first Breech-loader My first Grouse An astounding 

 Drive to Saltersgate Moor Shooting at Daybreak 



CHAPTER VIII . . . . .90 



Jex-Blake and his Influence How I saw him at Assouan 

 Mr Gubbins and Sam Darling not Egyptologists Jex- 

 Blake and the Victor Wild Verses He leaves Rugby for 

 Cheltenham Rugby Contemporaries The Rifle Corps 

 I defeat Humphry at Shooting Stevenson Other Not- 

 ablesBlair Athol's the Blood Through Four Forms 

 in Four Terms Concerning the Sixth "Jex" and my 

 "Character" The Rabbit Supper 



CHAPTER IX . . . . . .98 



Out of Control Money and Doctor's Certificates Mr 

 Arrowsmith's Cornucopia- "Bob" Colling finds me a 

 Horse Tragedy of the Fifth Form Verse and Prose 

 Browne Quarts. ! Rifle Shooting Extraordinary Shot 

 by Ramrods The Windsor Review Selous and the 

 Swans Installed in the Sixth Form I read a Lesson 

 Concerning my Duties 



