Parkhurst Boys, and Other Stories of School Life

by Talbot Baines Reed

Book Overview

It was a proud moment in my existence when Wright, captain of our football club, came up to me in school one Friday and said, "Adams, your name is down to play in the match against Craven to-morrow." I could have knighted him on the spot. To be one of the picked "fifteen," whose glory it was to fight the battles of their school in the Great Close, had been the leading ambition of my life-I suppose I ought to be ashamed to confess it-ever since, as...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1517414768
• ISBN13: 9781517414764
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 116 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 8.5" x 11.0"