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Title: Young Barbarians

Author: Ian Maclaren

Release Date: September 25, 2009 [EBook #30089]

Language: English

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[Illustration: "NESTIE WAS STANDING IN THE CENTRE OF THE LARGE ENTRANCE
HALL."]

YOUNG
BARBARIANS

_By_
IAN MACLAREN
Author of "_Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush_"

ILLUSTRATED

NEW YORK
Dodd, Mead and Company
1910

Copyright, 1899 and 1900,
By The Curtis Publishing Company,
as
A SCOTS GRAMMAR SCHOOL.

Copyright, 1900,
By The Curtis Publishing Company.

Copyright, 1901,
By Dodd, Mead and Company.

_First Edition, Published October, 1901_

CONTENTS

I
PAGE

"SPEUG" 1

II

BULLDOG 21

III

NESTIE 39

IV

A FAMOUS VICTORY 59

V

HIS PRIVATE CAPACITY 85

VI

THE DISGRACE OF MR. BYLES 103

VII

THE COUNT 121

VIII

A TOURNAMENT 139

IX

MOOSSY 163

X

A LAST RESOURCE 183

XI

A PLEASANT SIN 205

XII

GUERILLA WARFARE 223

XIII

THE FALL OF GOLIATH 245

XIV

THE BAILIE'S DOUBLE 261

XV

THE TRIUMPH OF THE SEMINARY 281

XVI

BULLDOG'S RECOMPENSE 305

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

"Nestie was standing in the centre of the large
entrance hall." Frontispiece

"Peter dared not lift his head." 36

"'You are an ill-bred c-cad.'" 50

"Seized an excellent position behind two Russian
guns