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A Dog with a Bad Name

By Talbot Baines Reed

2019-08-29 16:56:40

Brief Extract...."Years ago it had dropped out of the race with the other public-schools. Its name had disappeared from the pass list of the University and Civil Service candidates. Scarcely a human being knew the name of its head-master, and no assi ... Read more
Brief Extract...."Years ago it had dropped out of the race with the other public-schools. Its name had disappeared from the pass list of the University and Civil Service candidates. Scarcely a human being knew the name of its head-master, and no assistant-master was ever known to make Bolsover a stepping-stone to pedagogic promotion. The athletic world knew nothing of a Bolsover Eleven or Fifteen; and, worse still, no Bolsover boy was ever found who was proud either of his school or of himself." Less

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File size312.326 KB
Print pages195
PublisherPublic Domain Book
LanguageEnglish
ISBN1523486325
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Talbot Baines Reed
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Talbot Baines Reed (3 April 1852 – 28 November 1893) was an English writer of boys' fiction who established a genre of school stories that endured into the second half of the 20th century. Among his...

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