Show r ro o M S CONDENSED CLAS CLASSICS TOM BROWNS T SCHOOL DAYS X I 1 by THOMAS HUGHES X 1 it condensation by X william fenwick harrl harris y blugh wn no born oct 20 nt at buffington uffington ington berk 1 in 1834 him father rent artt tom to rugby to be under the charge chance of mr dr arnoldl arnold the doctor aud and the father had and been fell fellow win dents at oriel avol 01 ol legee oxford both hool chool and I 1 id maxter nere ere made world known knew n by the book tom 11 own se school hool 13 day a y 0 11 tom elgh not ill jimr been t wr much h the name hort ort of chool thool lioy buy sm the hero of f the story but in fillet fat george hl aln brother was the orla bixl ixl ani of tom adean an stanley vlas nan the of f arlhur aribu thomas choins followed toll oTred in b bid Is fa thera footstep at oriel he be w later late culled called to the bar and eventually wan appointed a bounly court JI idge him life was wn one of true service to frederick 11 maurice aurice won wan tile the brent rest inn influence lace that worked upon him and he binm of the group croup along alli charl KIP who devoted demoted the them elt to the cause of the W kliar gaeni elas co college lege lie he mat at in alin a 11 d e td friend of ill liln the work n agmen he tried his hi bd ill all in idea idealistic colony called rugby IlU Bli in 1 ne he be nan le n frequent aito m j america and WB was a grent friend and admirer of joules rummell LOTH hore home influence 01 ever er him to in isomi ibomi abo i in 11 the flie frequent lu 1 his bin book iain it other volumes included well led a eq I 1 to to tom B bw w at oxford 11 lUll x nl 1 4 and him hl 1 temoer Temo lr of n hut flut he win always he remembered a 14 the nane one and ad garent author ala i ban understood tood xo of the wool nf 0 a y nod mho ab nb hail hn ritte the acir text book in english of abe lip life ike filst as ai tom was swallowing swallow iab his last mout mouthful torn ifal three in w the morning winding his comforter round his throat and tucking the ends into the breast of ahli hi cont coat the horn winds sounds boots looks in and says nys tallyho tally ho sir and they the ohp ring rind tile the rattle of the tha four fa fast t trotters and the town ton made drag as it dashes up to the peacock anything AH thing for us bob says the burly guard dropping down don from behind and slapping himself across the chest young rugby hughy answers ars a hoit lor toll young pent gent to look nilve ans vs the gutirr opening tile the hind boot i and shooting the in tifer examining them hy by the lampi lamp here billere shove tile the portmanteau up n top toi ill 1 11 fasten him presently now non there sir jump up ill behind bood C 1 by father nn my love kne nt at home A last shake hake of the hand up goes toni tom the guiard his hatho hatbox hat box ho find and holding holdin ff on with one hind hand while with the other he claps chips tile the horn to lit his mouth toot toot toot the hie hustlers hostlers host bot lers let go their heads tile hie four las plunge III at the voliar ollar and aps ops the tallyho into the darkness z 45 seconds from the mile line they lind pulled up so go tom brown started to begin his school days das at rugby when lion william IV sat upon the throne squire brown had meditated something as follows the night nigh before shall I 1 tell ell him to mind his lit work ond to make himself a good wh scholar olar well in but t he sent to school for that at any rate not mft for that mainly I 1 dt dont care are a straw fur for greek particles or the dl gamma no more does docs his mother what Is he sent to school for well partly because he wanted to go if hell only turn out a brave helpful truth telling englishman and a gentleman and a christian all I 1 want upon this view ot of the case he framed his last to tom and now tom my hoy boy remember you are going at your own earnest request to he chucked into this great school like lice a young oung hear bear with all your troubles before you ou earlier than we should have rent pent you ou perhaps toni tom was nine if schools are what they were in my mv time see mee it grent ninny cruel blackguard things done ond and hear a deal of foul had talk rut but never fear feair you toll toll tell the truth keep it bravo brave and kind heart find and never listen or say anything you ou have hae your mother art and sl sister hoar hear and fiill never feel to come home or we to see you ou tonis toms father was wag a great asset to the hoy boy for though lie hp belonged to what Is 11 en called lidd tile upper middle dr tile opinion which the squire ON omd to propound above all others was wai th alio belief that a man Is to be valued wholly holly i for that lie he Is in himself for that which stands up in the four fleshly walls of him apart from clothes rank fortune and all external 9 what N hat anever ife he h held iad further that it matter a straw whether wheal 1 or his son cill canted I 1 ei w with I 1 ill lords so sons ns or plow mens sons provided they were brave air ue rind lionet honest so toni tom had a merre anil and right democratic lemo cratic time tile the hns boys of lb alie vili lige and len learned much that stood him in good stend stead when lie pot got to Iii pl other things to value vallie man or hoy boy wholly for what was in bilm whether it was harry windburn tile the t and het best boy in the liter ish who fi llight him the lie turns and holds bolds which later carried him through ith his great fight with the bully of 0 rugby or poor jacob doodle do 0 die calf as the boys boy nicknamed him in whose hands everything came to pieces and in whose hend head nothing would stick or job whose scandalized mother mo t her demanded on the occasion of a 1 visit I it from madam brown job lol wheres thy cap cepl what I 1 beange t on ma head nother mother matl replied ca job sto slowly w ay t ing one brind from rt a pocket and feel fee ing for tile the article in question which he found on lit his head lind h loft ft there to ills his mothers horror land and toni toms great delight dol leht rugby was a new world for tom lie ile was a sturdy and combative urchin ahle to fond fend tor for himself on his own heath yet it was a great boon been for fo r him that ho he fell into the hands of a hoy boy of his own ag age e hut but it 11 hit bit ahead of him at rugby the first sight he h e encountered on his arrival was a lordly I 1 v crowd of youngsters iho ho looked quite as it if they owned the place one of thase young voting heroes ran out from the rest nud tom 1 I 1 say you f follow L allow Is your nnnie name brown yes tom in considerable con to as glad however to lin have ve lightal on in some one already who ho seemed to know him all ali I 1 thought so you know my aunt miss east she lives somewhere down I 1 nn your way lit in berkshire she wrote to me that you were coming today and asked me to give you vou it a lift you ee spid his friend ns as they strolled up toward the lie sc hool gate a great deal depend on liow low 11 fellow bents up at first if hes got nothing ald odd about him and straightforward fo an Q ids his head vp p lie he gets on oil yon owrin doing tile lie hand handsome me thing hy by you yon because my iny father knows yours besma I 1 want NA wit to please tile lie old lady site she gave me hall a sov this half and doul double le it next nest if I 1 keep in her ter good books bonks thus began a I 1 friendship walh alil h in lastell lasted 1 through ili all their school days tind and gentit much to lo both of them friendship rut and loyalty will pond good cwi iwi i hip tire lire great features feat i in ili aliis book N v bich shams tin nil insight into lit the brain and henrt of it i boy bo halh 1 Is jut ju t as wise lse in tile DO yen year of our lord 1920 as it was in tile the lays dats of william IV tom awl enst wen together in p unos nines in in lights in good deeds or in devallry lell devill ln ry i ns they avre re in ingenious syndicating methods of working ont the mysteries masteries mas teries of tin thil tin and latin and years at ars later when the wisp wise doctor arnnld of decided api dpi idad chrit ton tom was as headed toward it was ns tv by manns of friendship for a weaker iunker hov boy who his protection that lie he res rescued cited him what mint was ns the lie marvel of the doctors power ON oer or lioi we filter into finif tha tant t we heard board we tile knowledge of our own on or the HIP know knowledge lei g e of nt one another end little enough enouch of the faith chopo and love needed to that hat end rut but we i 0 listened as all boys bos in their better moods monds aili listen aye aio arnd men too for the matter of that hit to a in in whom felt to hp with ith all ills fits lienert arid ill and trent trong th li striving against whatever ns mean lind and uniti anly and lit in our little world orld it was not ill alie vold old clear voice of one fine giving nelce rind and lining from serene fiig 1 is to it I 1 os I 1 who mere cre struggling and sinning h helow elow but the warm living volve le if arl one who lin war ais fl ahting bov us uc tind and liy by out oni ades 0 and calling us to help him and eur selves acs awl and one oile another A and n 1 so eerily wearily tind and little by little was brought lame to the young boy for the first time the meaning roean lne of his life that it ans T no fools or sluggards slug shig gards into hah h lie he had wandered by b chance clin hut hilt a battle field ordained fl aiom wil of oll old d chere there tire are no lint but the youngest must take Ws hs side and the sunhe are life tin and death and lit ho who roused rou ed this consciousness in thoin them showed shoved them at the same time by 15 pery every word he spoke and by his whole daily life how bow that battle wit wis s to lo be foi foupht ight rind and stood bond before thern liem their fellow soldier and the nin of t their he r guard the true sort of captain too for a boys army one who had no ill misgivings land ge gave no unc un cerlan erfan word woid ot of command and let who would yield beld or make a truce would fight the out so every boy felt to tile the twit lust gasp and the last drop ot of blood and so tom lived his life from the first green days dass to the last lart memorable night when he was round tile the quadrangle by h the eleven shouting in chorus for lies hes a jolly 1011 good fellow himself as prent great a lioy toy us its till fill the rest desoito de pile the P I sligo or of alir ill eals and his dignity of captan it is it 11 story of hu maline alth ith nil it its points tind us its hut chally of loyalty lon lt and ot of of games rn ines so much like our own in spirit und and apt pt so df different ferent in of east tind arilar of if the ur C tin old fagging s stein the school anol bully rind tonis toms cil fight liim haill of ill alip final war of indel lidonie it filliat t vent was ns metin memi and sadid 11 11 1 I munt ant to leue leave lil bethol nip me laid toni tom speaking low tile the hinline inline of n fellow who never bullied a little hov boy or turned its ills back on n mg his one ard and then I 1 sooner r have the doctors doctor 4 good oil non of me ine as I 1 lolly niu than any mans in ili the lie world horld copyright 1910 by bv tile the post co the botton post bostl it lit in t the h e ignited the its colonies and depend dependence enle und r th ohp c copi 0 ray right act by alie io alt st publishing co ci boston wass mass U S A all rights reserved |