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The Adventures of Mr Verdant Green,
by Cuthbert Bede

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(PART I)

THE ADVENTURES

OF

MR. VERDANT GREEN,

AN OXFORD FRESHMAN.

BY CUTHBERT BEDE, B.A.

WITH NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS,
DESIGNED AND DRAWN ON THE WOOD BY THE AUTHOR.

"A COLLEGE JOKE TO CURE THE DUMPS."
SWIFT.

LONDON: NATHANIEL COOKE,
(LATE INGRAM, COOKE, AND CO.)
MILFORD HOUSE, STRAND.

1853.

LONDON:
PRINTED BY ROBSON, LEVEY, AND FRANKLYN,
Great New Street and Fetter Lane

[Forward to Part II]

[Forward to Part III]

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I[Mr. Verdant Green's Relatives and Antecedents]
II[Mr. Verdant Green is to be an Oxford Freshman]
III[Mr. Verdant Green leaves the Home of his Ancestors]
IV[Mr. Verdant Green becomes an Oxford Undergraduate]
V[Mr. Verdant Green matriculates, and makes a sensation]
VI[Mr. Verdant Green dines, breakfasts, and goes to Chapel]
VII[Mr. Verdant Green calls on a Gentleman who "is licensed to sell"]
VIII[Mr. Verdant Green's Morning Reflections are not so pleasant as his Evening Diversions]
IX[Mr. Verdant Green attends Lectures, and, in despite of Sermons, has dealings with Filthy Lucre]
X[Mr. Verdant Green reforms his Tailor's Bills and runs up others. He also appears in a rapid act of Horsemanship, and finds Isis cool in Summer]
XI[Mr. Verdant Green's Sports and Pastimes]
XII[Mr. Verdant Green terminates his existence as an Oxford Freshman]

THE ADVENTURES
OF
MR. VERDANT GREEN.