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Title: A Dog with a Bad Name

Author: Talbot Baines Reed

Illustrator: A.P.

Release Date: April 12, 2007 [EBook #21038]

Language: English

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A Dog with a Bad Name

By Talbot Baines Reed
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The story opens in a rather run-down school. There is an unfortunate
incident in which a boy is almost killed, and a boy of the name of
Jeffreys, not a very popular chap, is held to have been responsible.

Thus the dog acquires a bad name. Throughout the next few years of
Jeffreys' life this incident is brought up against him. He is brought
lower and lower, till eventually he finds somewhere to live in the
utmost poverty, amongst the very poor. Here by a twist of fortune he
ends up looking after some abandoned children. There is a fire, and he
rescues somebody, but it is only when he gets that person back to his
room that he realises it is the very person whom he had almost killed
all those years before.

This book is very well written. I have been wondering whether it is a
book for teenagers, or a book for adults, and have come to the
conclusion that it's for teenagers, but only the really bright ones, as
there is so much food for thought in it. NH.
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A DOG WITH A BAD NAME

BY TALBOT BAINES REED

CHAPTER ONE.

DRY-ROT.

Bolsover College was in a bad temper. It often was; for as a rule it
had little else to do; and what it had, was usually a less congenial
occupation.

Bolsover, in fact, was a school which sadly needed two trifling reforms
before it could be expected to do much good in the world. One was, that
all its masters should be dismissed; the other was, that all its boys
should be expelled. When these little changes had been effected there
was every chance of turning the place into a creditable school; but not
much chance otherwise.

For Bolsover College was afflicted with