. The Bookshelf for boys and girls Little Journeys into Bookland . an than in the doings of amerry school-boy. In the royal county of Berks, and in that part ofit known as the Vale of White Horse, livedSquire Brown, justice of the peace for thecounty. He was a man of strong democraticopinions, and had no prejudices against his fel- low-men less blessed than he with worldly life of the Brown household had alwaysbeen simple and uneventful, the squires chiefdiversions being a visit twice a year to Readingand Abingdon at the time of the assizes or quar-ter sessions. Toms mother was a ve
. The Bookshelf for boys and girls Little Journeys into Bookland . an than in the doings of amerry school-boy. In the royal county of Berks, and in that part ofit known as the Vale of White Horse, livedSquire Brown, justice of the peace for thecounty. He was a man of strong democraticopinions, and had no prejudices against his fel- low-men less blessed than he with worldly life of the Brown household had alwaysbeen simple and uneventful, the squires chiefdiversions being a visit twice a year to Readingand Abingdon at the time of the assizes or quar-ter sessions. Toms mother was a very practicalcountry lady; and, indeed, her thoroughgoingqualities had earned for her the title of MadamBrown. Under the guidance of his alert andsensible mother, Toms character had been shapedin the right direction from his earliest years;while his father believed in letting him minglewith the boys of the village, instead of keepinghim aloof from them, as only by mixing withothers are the rough edges of our charactersmoothed down. For this reason the squire pro-. > w?J CO m -I CO G« — m V G m U <u t/j3« 3C u T3 .5 D O rS c
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