Produced by David Widger FRANK FAIRLEGH SCENES FROM THE LIFE OF A PRIVATE PUPIL BY FRANK E. SMEDLEY “How now! good lack! what present have we here? A Book that goes in peril of the press; But now it's past those pikes, and doth appear To keep the lookers-on from heaviness. What stuff contains it?” _Davies of Hereford_ WITH TWENTY-EIGHT ILLUSTRATIONS BY GEORGE CRUIKSHANK A NEW EDITION METHUEN & CO. LONDON 1904 THIS Issue is founded on the First Edition, published by A. Hall, Virtue, & Co., in the year 1850. I. All Right! Off We Go! 1 II. Loss and Gain 12 III. Cold-water Cure for the Heartache 21 IV. Wherein is Commenced the Adventure of the Macintosh and Other Matters 28 V. Mad Bess 39 VI. Lawless Gets Thoroughly Pot Oot 46 VII. The Board of Green Cloth 59 VIII. Good Resolutions 71 IX. A Denouement 81 X. The Boating Party 93 XI. Breakers Ahead! 100 XII. Death and Change 106 XIII. Catching a Shrimp 114 XIV. The Ball 122 XV. Ringing the Curfew 129 XVI. The Roman Father 136 XVII. The Invisible Girl 145 XVIII. The Game in Barstone Park 150 XIX. Turning the Tables 155 XX. Alma Mater 160 XXI. The Wine Party 163 XXII. Taming a Shrew 173 XXIII. What Harry and I Found When We Lost Our Way 182 XXIV. How Oaklands Broke His Horsewhip 190 XXV. The Challenge 198 XXVI. Coming Events Cast Their Shadows Before 205 XXVII. The Duel 212 XXVIII. The Substance of the Shadow 220 XXIX. The Struggle in Chesterton Meadow 229 XXX. Mr. Frampton's Introduction to a Tiger 234 XXXI. How I Rise a Degree, and Mr. Frampton Gets Elevated in More Ways Than One 242 XXXII. Catching Sight of an Old Flame 250 XXXIII. Woman's a Riddle 257 XXXIV. The Riddle Baffles Me! 264 XXXV. A Mysterious Letter 272