CHAPTER I.
MY FIRST SCHOOL-MR. BROWN-PLAYING TRUANT-CONTRITION
FOR MY FAULT-A FAVOURITE OF MR. BROWN-THE EFFECT OF
THIS ON MY FELLOW-PUPILS-EFFECT, ALSO, ON MY OWN HEART
-AN EXHIBITION-IT BEGETS ENVY-LEAVE MY FIRST SCHOOL.
My first school was one in which "small Latin and less Greek were taught, but our good old mother tongue was made the leading object of our master's care. Here it was that I laid the foundation of my little pyramid of knowledge. And, perhaps, I could not have been placed in a
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