AUTHOR OF "MURIEL, AND OTHER POEMS."

EDINBURGH:
W. P. NIMMO, HAY, & MITCHELL
1872

[Transcriber's note: In the original book, each page had its own header. In this e-book, each chapter's headers have been collected into an introductory paragraph at the start of that chapter.]

TO
My Little Brothers,
ALFRED, ARTHUR, HERBERT,
LEWIS, AND CECIL,
I DEDICATE
THIS TALE.

CONTENTS.

CHAP.
I. [A LONG GOOD-BYE]
II. [WHY THE SAD GOOD-BYE WAS GIVEN]
III. [SAD INFORMATION]
IV. [WILTON SCHOOL]
V. [MOTHER AND SON]
VI. [INJURED INNOCENCE]
VII. [A BOY FIGHT AT SCHOOL]
VIII. [FRIENDS IN MISFORTUNE]
IX. [HARRY PUT ON TRIAL]
X. [SUNLIGHT]
XI. [MOVING HOME]
XII. [BULLYING]
XIII. [FLIGHT]
XIV. [AT SLEEP AT LAST]
XV. [THE BITERS BIT]
XVI. [BLEWCOME'S ROYAL MENAGERIE]
XVII. [THE LOST FOUND]
XVIII. [FATHER AND SON]
XIX. [AT WILTON ONCE MORE]
XX. [AVENGED AT LAST]

ILLUSTRATIONS

[ "His eyes were greedily fixed on the book; then he would write a little, then look again, then write again. He was cribbing." . . . . . . . . . Frontispiece ]

[ "'Leave him to me,' said Warburton, a tall ungainly boy of fourteen, as boy after boy was eager to take the quarrel to himself." ]

[ "There he was, safe on the ground at last." ]