Excerpt from The Early Days of Marlborough College: Or Public School Life Between Forty and Fifty Years Ago, To Which Is Added a Glimpse of Old Haileybury, Patna During the Mutiny, A Sketch of the Natural History of the Riviera, And Life in an Oxfordshire Village

And turning from my nursery window, drew A long, long sigh, and wept a last adieu.

I have always felt sore when recalling my school-days, but now I have had my say in the following pages, I feel like Mr. Pickwick, after he had pitched into Dodson and Fogg', in his lawyer's office, and I am happy in raising my voice against the rascally trick some masters have, or at least had in my time, of scamping their work, and making their wretched pupils suffer in consequence.

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