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Title: Dr. Jolliffe's Boys

Author: Lewis Hough

Illustrator: Frank Feller and S. Thurdale

Release Date: April 18, 2007 [EBook #21187]

Language: English

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Doctor Jolliffe's Boys

by Lewis Hough
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This a very enjoyable book about life in a boy's boarding school in the
late nineteenth century. Despite school-rules, the boys get out of
bounds for a number of reasons, for instance visiting a forbidden tuck
shop; engaging in various cruel country sports, like rat baiting; going
skating on a frozen lake, especially near the thin ice; poaching on a
large nearby estate; and suchlike attractions.

Every scene is beautifully drawn, and I have wondered many times why the
author did not write more, and indeed why this book is not more well
known than it is. Until I found a copy in an old book shop I had never
heard of either the author or of the book.

The characters of the various principal actors in the story are very
well drawn, and one feels one knows them all quite well by the end of
the book.

There was in fact another contemporary author of the same name, who was
an expert in economic and currency affairs, and who also wrote using,
and about, a novel way of getting books printed. N.H.
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DOCTOR JOLLIFFE'S BOYS

BY LEWIS HOUGH

CHAPTER ONE.

A TALE OF WESTON SCHOOL.

WESTON _versus_ HILLSBOROUGH.

"Well cut, Saurin, well cut! Run it out! Four!" The ball was
delivered again to the bowler, who meditated a shooter, but being a
little tired, failed in his amiable intention, and gave the chance of a
half-volley, which the batsman timed accurately, and caught on the right
inch of the bat, with the whole swing of his arms and body thrown into
the drive, so that the ball went clean into the scorer's tent, as if
desirous of marking the runs for itself.

"Well hit indeed! Well hit!"

The Westonians roared