The first edition of this book is dated 1894. The edition used is dated 1928. The publisher was The Office of The Boy’s Own Paper, London. The number of pages is 308.

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General information

Another of this author’s well-written and entertaining school books. In this case the hero is young Master Jones. To prepare for entry to the school he had been given some tuition by a lady who was a teacher at a girls’ school. Of course the other boys at the boys’ school soon found out that he had come to them from a girls’ school, and he became known, albeit affectionately, by the nickname of “Sarah”.

But he is well respected, and enjoys his various friendships with the other boys, noticing even, at one point, that they seemed to be vieing with one another for his friendship.

Towards the end of the story his mother visits the school, and is a great hit with the other boys.

There some moments of drama, amusingly told, such as when our hero is unwittingly involved in almost blowing the school up! The boys involved off are hauled off to the magistrate by the local village policeman, who, comically, had imagined that a blazer, the top garment worn by schoolboys of that era (and mine) was a kind of lucifer, which in turn was a kind of match used before the invention of the safety-match. This is a particularly amusing episode, terminating in the magistrate awarding the school-keeper, who had been slightly injured, one guinea costs, to pay for his bandages, which he pays out of his own pocket.

There are no mountain-side dramas as in several other books by this author, and the rowing episodes on the river are quite tame. There are no wicked local beer-house owners. But it is a good story, quietly and evenly told. Best listened to rather than read. NH.

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Contents

Chapter I.
Who shot the Dog?

Chapter II.
A Conspiracy of Silence.

Chapter III.
“When shall we Three meet again?“

Chapter IV.
Brushing up the Classics.

Chapter V.
A “Coach” Drive!

Chapter VI.
Up to Form.

Chapter VII.
Coming down a Peg or Two.

Chapter VIII.
Tempest talks to me like a Father.

Chapter IX.
Acquaintances, High and Low.

Chapter X.
Special Service.

Chapter XI.
Cheap Advertising Extraordinary.

Chapter XII.
A Committee of Ways and Means.

Chapter XIII.
The Picnic at Camp Hill Bottom.

Chapter XIV.
Extra Drill.

Chapter XV.
Explosive Material.

Chapter XVI.
Gunpowder Treason.

Chapter XVII.
Before the “Beak.“

Chapter XVIII.
Going Down Stream.

Chapter XIX.
Halting between Two Opinions.

Chapter XX.
Deepest Depths.

Chapter XXI.
I am advised to lie low.

Chapter XXII.
Putting on the Brake.

Chapter XXIII.
Pretty warm all round.

Chapter XXIV.
“Small and Early” in the Sanatorium.

Chapter XXV.
A Dead Heat.

Chapter XXVI.
A Good Show-up all Round.

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