"His eyes were greedily fixed on the book; then he would write a little, then look again, then write again.

He was cribbing."-WILTON

SCHOOL, page 33.

(Frontispiece.)

EDINBURGH:
WILLIAM P. N I M M O.
1872.

EDINBURGH:

PRINTED BY M'FARLANE AND ERSKINE, (late Schenck & M'Farlane,) ST JAMES' SQUARE.

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ΤΟ

My Little Brothers,

ALFRED, ARTHUR, HERBERT,

LEWIS, AND CECIL,

I DEDICATE

THIS TALE.