



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

     XXXVI. The Riddle Solved                             280

     XXXVII. The Forlorn Hope                             288

     XXXVIII. Facing the Enemy                            296

     XXXIX. The Council of War                            304

     XL. Lawless's Matinee Musicale                       313

     XLI. How Lawless Became a Lady's Man                 322

     XLII. The Meet at Eversley Gorse                     331

     XLIII. A Charade--Not All Acting                     340

     XLIV. Confessions                                    350

     XLV. Helping a Lame Dog Over a Stile                 360

     XLVI. Tears and Smiles                               369

     XLVII. A Cure for the Heartache                      378

     XLVHI. Paying Off Old Scores                         389

     XLIX. Mr. Frampton Makes a Discovery                 399

     L. A Ray of Sunshine                                 408

     LI. Freddy Coleman Falls into Difficulties           417

     LII. Lawless Astonishes Mr. Coleman                  425

     LIII. A Comedy of Errors                             432

     LIV. Mr. Vernor Meets His Match                      440

     LV. The Pursuit                                      447

     LVI. Retribution                                     454

     LVII. Woo'd and Married                              463





     LIST  OF ILLUSTRATIONS

     Frank Fairlegh Caught in the Trap                     27

     Lawless Ornamenting Frank's Writing-desk              29

     Mad Bess                                              44

     Lawless Finds his Level                               56

     The Doctor Makes a Discovery                          79

     The Doctor Expels a Pupil                             90

     Frank Rescues Coleman                                104

     The Fall op the Candelabrum                          124

     Freddy Coleman mystifies the Beadle                  133

     Lawless Eloping with the Fire-engine                 135

     The Wine Party                                       167

     The Roused Lion                                      190

     The Results ok giving Satisfaction                   216

     Fairlegh to the Rescue                               231

     Hurra! Hurra!   Room for the Governor                246

     The Shy Young Gentleman Favours the Company
    