OF PLAIN AND COLOURED BOOKS

FRANK FAIRLEGH

"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

OR

SCENES FROM THE LIFE
OF A PRIVATE PUPIL

BY

FRANK E. SMEDLEY

WITH TWENTY-EIGHT ILLUSTRATIONS

BY GEORGE CRUIKSHANK

A NEW EDITION

METHUEN & CO.

LONDON

1904

NOTE

THIS Issue is founded on the First Edition, published by A. Hall, Virtue,

& Co., in the year 1850.