HUR MAKES A FRIEND 245

CHAPTER IV.
THE BIRD-FANCIERS 262

CHAPTER V.
THE FIGHT 279

CHAPTER VI.
THE FEVER 300

CHAPTER VII.
HARRY EAST'S DILEMMAS AND DELIVERANCES 321

CHAPTER VIII.
TOM BROWN'S LAST MATCH 341

CHAPTER IX.
FINIS 367

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

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THE NIGHT FAG 144

OLD THOMAS IN HIS DEN 155

TOM DISCOVERED BY VELVETEENS 202

CLIMBING THE FIR-TREE AFTER THE KESTREL'S NEST 268

THE DOCTOR'S COUNSEL TO YOUNG BROOKE 296

THE CONVERSATION DURING THE MATCH 351

CHAIRING TOM IN THE QUADRANGLE 366

TOM BROWN'S SCHOOL DAYS.

BY AN OLD BOY.

CHAPTER I.

"I'm the Poet of White Horse Vale, sir,
With liberal notions under my cap."
_Ballad._

THE Browns have become illustrious by the pen of Thackeray and the
pencil of Doyle within the memory of the young gentlemen who are now
matriculating at the Universities. Notwithstanding the well-merited but
late fame which has now fallen upon them, any one at all acquainted with
the family must feel that much has yet to be written and said before the
British nation will be properly sensible of how much of its greatness
it owes to the Browns. For centuries, in their quiet, dogged, homespun
way, they have been subduing the earth in most English counties, and
leaving their mark in American forests and Australian uplands. Wherever
the fleets and armies of England have won renown, there stalwart sons of
the Browns have done yeoman's work. With the yew bow and cloth-yard
shaft at Cressy and Agincourt--with the brown bill and pike under the
brave Lord Willoughby--with culverin and demi-culverin against Spaniards
and Dutchmen--with hand-grenade and sabre, and musket and bayonet, under
Rodney and St. Vincent, Wolfe and Moore, Nelson and Wellington, they
have carried their lives in their hands; getting hard knocks and hard
work in plenty, which was on the whole what they looked for, and the
best thing for them; and little praise or pudding, which indeed they and
m