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Title: That Scholarship Boy

Author: Emma Leslie

Release Date: July 22, 2008 [EBook #26104]

Language: English

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[Illustration: HE PICKED UP HORACE AND CARRIED HIM DOWN.
[_Page 106._]

THAT

SCHOLARSHIP BOY

By

EMMA LESLIE

_Author of 'Arthur Ranyard's Training,' 'Dearer than Life,' etc._

THIRD IMPRESSION

LONDON

THE RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY

4 Bouverie Street and 65 St. Paul's Churchyard E.C.

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CONTENTS.

PAGE

CHAPTER I

BROTHER AND SISTER 5

CHAPTER II

SENDING HIM TO COVENTRY 8

CHAPTER III

THE COCK OF THE WALK 32

CHAPTER IV

DR. MORRISON 46

CHAPTER V

THE CHAMPION 59

CHAPTER VI

FOR THE HONOUR OF THE SCHOOL 74

CHAPTER VII

NEWS FOR MRS. MORRISON 89

CHAPTER VIII

RIGHTEOUS RETRIBUTION 109

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CHAPTER I.

BROTHER AND SISTER.

'I say, we've got a new boy at Torrington's. Haven't had one for ages
and ages, so it's made quite a stir among us.'

'You can make stir enough when you are coming out of school,' said his
sister, lifting her eyes from her lessons and looking across the
table.

'Who is the new boy?' she asked.

'Nobody knows--that's the fun,' said Leonard, with a short whistle.

'Don't you even know his name?'

'That's just like a girl, Duffy; you're worse than usual,' said her
brother, setting his elbows on the table, and nibbling the end of the
pen-holder in a meditative fashion. 'Of course he was properl