'^w> ^■"#^. ^^ ■-■-■■- 1- 1 a a1v 3i«* ^HbHI^ ^^^^^^^^Hf ^ ' ^Bl ii ^^^^^^^^H II" ^H 1 L 4 Fr, ...__^ WW.- ''■■. -37/ i A yoim^o; B.a.pliael ~% v^ tOii .15 ip '•I. ^^ vh "^ V A- DOCTOR BIRCH ms YOUNG FRIENDS. BY WM. M. THACKERAY. NEW-YORK : D. APPLETON & CO., 200 BROADWAY 1853. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. (::' L A YOUNG RAPHAEL . Frontispiece. VIGNETTE Title. THE LION AND THE LITTLE CUBS 7 RIVAL FORCES .......... 8 THE LITTLE SCHOOL-ROOM . ■ . . . . . .10 THE DEAR BROTHERS . . . . . . . . .13 THE LAST BOY OF ALL . . . . . . • .15 WHO STOLE THE JAM? ......... 20 A SERIOUS CASE ......... 21 A HAMPER FOR BRIGGS ......... 22 SURE TO SUCCEED IN LIFE ....... 28 THE PIRATE 29 HOME, SWEET HOME ......... 32 A RESCUE .......... 34 MISS birch's FLOWER GARDEN ... .... 38 WANTED A GOVERNESS . ' . . - ■ . • -43 SI I DOCTOR BIllCH. THE DOCTOR AND HIS STAFF. There is no need to say why I became Assistant Master and Professor of the English and French Languages, flower-painting^ and the German flute, in Doctor Birch's Academy, at Rodwell Regis. Good folks may depend on this that there was good reason for my leaving lodgings near London, and a genteel society. for an imder-master's desk in that old school. I promise you the fare at the Usher's table, the getting up at five o'clock in the morning, the walking out with little boys in the fields, (who used to play me tricks, and never could be got to respect my awful and responsible character as teacher in the school,) Miss Birch's vulgar insolence. Jack Birch's glum condescension, and the poor old Doctors' patronage, were not matters in themselves pleasurable : iind that that patronage and those dinners were sometimes cruel hard to swallow. Never mind — my connexion 1 2 DOCTOR BIRCH, with the place is over now, and I hope they have got a more effi- cient under-master. Jack Birch (Rev. J. Birch,. of St. Neot's Hall, Oxford,) is partner with his father the Doctor, and takes some of the classes. About his Greek I can't say much ; but I will construe him in Latin any day. A more supercilious little prig, (giving him- self airs, too, about his cousin, Miss Raby, who lives with the Doctor,) a more empty pompous little coxcomb I never saw. His white neckcloth looked as if it choked him. He used to try and look over that starch upon me and Prince the assistant, as if we were a couple of footmen. He didn't do much business in the school ; but occupied his time in writing sanctified letters to the boys' parents, and in composing dreary sermons to preach to them. The real master of the school is Prince ; an Oxford man too ; shy, haughty, and learned ; crammed with Greek and a quantity of useless learning ; uncommonly kind to the small boj^s ; pitiless with the fools and the braggarts : respected of all for his honesty, his learning, his bravery, (for he hit out once in a row-boat in a way which astonished the boys and the bargemen,) and for a latent power about him, w^hich all saw and confessed somehow. Jack Birch could never look him in the face. Old Miss Z. dared not put off any of her airs upon him. Miss Rosa made him the lowest of curtsies. Miss Raby said she was afraid of him. Good old Am) HIS YOUNG FRIENDS. 3 Prince ! many a pleasant night we have smoked in the Doctor's harness-room, Tvhither we retired when our boys were gone to bed, and our cares and canes put by. After Jack Birch had taken his degree at Oxford — a process which he effected with great difficulty — this place which used to be called " Birch's," " Dr. Birch's Academy," and what not, be- came suddenly " Archbishop Wigsby's College of Rodwell Regis.'' They took down the old blue board with the gold letters, which ha^been used to mend the pig-stye since. Birch had a large school-room run up in the Gothic taste, with statuettes, and a little belfry, and a bust of Archbishop Wigsby in the mid- dle of the school. He put the six senior boys into caps and gowns, which had rather a good effect as the lads sauntered down the street of the town, but which certainly provoked the contempt and hostility of the bargemen ; and so great was his rage for academic costumes and ordinances, that he would have put me myself into a lay gown, with red knots and fringes, but that I flatly resisted, and said that a writing-master had no busi- ness with such paraphernalia. By the way, I have forgotten to mention the Doctor himself. And what shall I say of him ? Well, he has a very crisp gown and bands, a solemn air, a tremendous loud voice, and a grand and solemn air with the boys' parents, whom he receives in a study covered round with the best bound books, which imposes upon • 4 DOCTOR BIRCH, many — upon the women especially — and makes them fancy that this is a Doctor indeed. But, Law bless you ! He never reads the books ; or opens one of them, except that in which he keeps his bands — and a Dugdale's Monasticon, which looks like a book, but is in reality a cupboard, where he has his almond cakes, and decanter of port wine. He gets up his classics with transla- tions, or what the boys call cribs. They pass wicked tricks upon him when he hears the forms. The elder wags go to his study, and ask him to help them in hard bits of Herodotus or Thflcy- dides : he says he will look over the passage, and flies for refuge to Mr. Prince, or to the crib. He keeps the flogging department in his own hands ; finding that his son was too savage. He has awful brows and a big voice. But his roar frightens nobody. It is only a lion's skin, or, so to say, a muff. Little Mordant made a picture of him with large ears, like a well-known domestic animal, and had his own justly boxed for the caricature. The Doctor discovered him in the fact, and was in a flaming rage, and threatened whipping at first ; but in the course of the day an opportune basket of game arriving from Mordant's father, the Doctor became mollified, and has burnt the picture with the ears. However I have one wafered up in my desk by the hand of the same little rascal : and the frontispiece of this very book is di'awn from it. AND HIS YOUNG FEIENDS. THE COCK OF THE SCHOOL. I AM growing an old fellow — and have seen many great folks in the course of my travels and time — Louis Philippe coming out of the Tuileries, His Majesty the King of Prussia and the Reichsverweser accolading each other, at Cologne, at my elbow ; Admiral Sir Charles Napier (in an omnibus once), the Duke of Y/ellington, the immortal Goethe at Weimar, the late benevolent Pope Gregory XVI., and a score more of the famous in this world — the whom, whenever one looks at, one has a mild shock of awe and tremor. I like this feeling and decent fear and trembling with which a modest spirit salutes a Great Man. "Well, I have seen Generals capering on horseback at the head of their crimson battalions ; Bishops sailing down cathedral aisles, with downcast eyes, pressing their trencher caps to their hearts with their fat white hands ; College heads when her Majesty is on a visit ; the Doctor in all his glory at the head of his school on Speech-day, a great sight, — and all great men 6 DOCTOR BIRCH, these. I have never met the late Mr. Thomas Cribb, but I have no doubt should have regarded him with the same feeling of awe with which I look every day at George Champion, the cock of Dr. Birch's school. When, I say, I reflect as I go up and set him a sum, that he could whop me in tw^o minutes, double up Prince and the other assistant, and pitch the Doctor out of window, I can't but think how great, how generous, how magnanimous a creature this is, that sits quite quiet and good-natured, and works his equation, and ponders through his Greek play. He might take the school- room pillars and pull the house down if he liked. He might close the door, and demolish every one of us like Antar, the lover of Ibla ; but he lets us live. He never thrashes anybody without a cause, when woe betide the tyrant or the sneak ! I think that to be strong, and able to whop everybody, — (not to do it, mind you, but to feel that you were able to do it,) — would be the greatest of all gifts. There is a serene good humour which plays about George Champion's broad face, which shows the consciousness of this power, and lights up his honest blue eyes with a magnanimous calm. He is invictus. Even when a cub there was no beating this lion. Six years ago the undaunted little warrior actually stood up to Frank Davison, — (the Indian officer now — poor little •Charley's brother, whom INIiss Raby nursed so affectionately,) 'Tke Liou- aniitiie little Cuhi AND HIS YOUNG FRIENDS. • 7 — then seventeen years old, and the cock of Birch's. They were obliged to drag oflf the boy, and Frank, -with admiration and regard for him, prophesied the great things he would do. Legends of combats are preserved fondly in schools ; they have stories of such at Rodwell Regis, performed in the old Doctor's time, forty years ago. Champion's affair with the Young Tutbury Pet, who was down here in training, — with Black the Bargeman, — with the three head boys of Doctor Wapshot's academy, whom he caught maltreating an outlying day-boy of ours, &c., — are known to all the Rodwell Regis men. He was always victorious. He is modest and kind, like all great men. He has a good, brave, honest understanding. He cannot make verses like young Binder, or read Greek like Lawrence the Prefect, who is a perfect young abyss of learning, and knows enough, Prince says, to furnish any six first-class men ; but he does his work in a sound, downright way, and he is made to be the bravest of soldiers, the best of country parsons, an honest English gentleman wher- ever he may go. Like all great men, George is good-humoured and lazy. There is a particular bench in the play-ground on which he will loll for hours on half-holidays, and is so affable that the smallest boys come and speak to him. It is pleasant to see the young cubs frisking round the honest lion. His chief friend and b DOCTOR BIRCH, attendant, however, is young Jack Hall, whom he saved when drowning, out of the Miller's Pool. The attachment of the two is curious to witness. The smaller lad gambolling, playing tricks round the bigger one, and perpetually making fun of his pro- tector. They are never far apart, and of holidays you may meet them miles away from the school. George sauntering heavily down the lanes with his big stick, and little Jack larking with the pretty girls in the cottage windows. George has a boat on the river, in which, however, he com- monly lies smoking, whilst Jack sculls him. He does not play at cricket, except when the school plaj'-s the county, or at Lord's in the holidays. The boys can't stand his bowling, and Avhen he hits, it is like trying to catch a cannon-ball. I have seen him at tennis. It is a splendid sight to behold the young fellow bounding over the court with streaming yellow hair, like young Apollo in a flannel jacket. The other head boys are Lawrence the Captain, Bunce, famous chiefly for his magnificent appetite, and Pitman, sur- named Roscius, for his love of the drama. Add to these Swanky, called Macassar, from his partiality to that condiment, and who has varnished boots, wears white gloves on Sundays, and looks out for Miss Pinkerton's school (transferred from Chiswick to Rodwell Regis, and conducted by the nieces of the late Miss Barbara Pinkerton, the friend of Our Great Lexico- /^^-'^i. mjA •' 17 vf-. ->^ -*, 1 AND HIS YOUNG FRIENDS. 9 grapher, upon the principles approved by him and practised by that admirable woman,) as it passes into church. Representations have been made concerning Mr. Horace Swanky's behaviour ; rumours have been uttered about notes in verse, conveyed in three-cornered puffs, by Mrs. Ruggles, who serves Miss Pinkerton's young ladies on Fridays — and how Miss Didow, to whom the tart and enclosure were addressed, tried to make away with herself by swallowing a ball of cotton. But I pass over these absurd reports, as likely to affect the reputation of an admirable Seminary conducted by irreproachable females. As they go into church (Miss P. driving in her flock of lambkins with the crook of her parasol,) how can it be helped if her forces and ours sometimes collide, as the boys are on their way up to the organ-loft ? And I don't believe a word about the three-cornered puff, but rather that it was the invention of that jealous Miss Birch, who is jealous of Miss Baby, jealous of everybody Avho is good and handsome, and who has her own ends in view, or I am very much in error. 10 DOCTOR BIRCH, THE LITTLE SCHOOL-ROOM. What they call the little school-room is a small room at the other end of' the great school ; through which you go to the Doctor's private house, and where Miss Raby sits with her pupils. She has a half-dozen very small ones over whom she presides and teaches them in her simple way, until they are big or learned enough to face the great school-room. Many of them are in a hurry for promotion, the graceless little simpletons, and know no more than their elders when they are well off. She keeps the accounts, writes out the bills, superintends the linen and sews on the general shirt-buttons. Think of having such a woman at home to sew on one's shirt-buttons ! But peace, peace, thou foolish heart ! Miss Raby is the Doctor's niece. Her mother was a beauty quite unlike old Zoe therefore) ; and she married a pupil in the old Doctor's time, who was killed afterwards, a Captain in the East India service, at the siege of Bhurtpore. Hence a number ITi-e Little ScLgoI B^oom. AKD HIS YOUNG FRIENDS, 11 of Indian children come to the Doctor's, for Raby was very much liked, and the uncle's kind reception of the orphan has been a good speculation for the school-keeper. It is wonderful how brightly and gaily that little quick crea- ture does her duty. She is the first to rise, and the last to sleep, if any business is to be done. She sees the other two women go off to parties in the town without even so much as wishing to join them. It is Cinderella, only contented to stay at home — content to bear Zoe's scorn and to admit Flora's superior charms, — and to her utmost to repay her uncle for his great kindness in housing her. So, you see, she works as much as three maid-servants for the wages of one. She is as thankful when the Doctor gives her a new gown, as if he had presented her with a fortune : laughs at his stories most good-humouredly, listens to Zoe's scolding most meekly, admires Flora with all her heart, and only goes out of the way when Jack Birch shows his sallow face : for she can't bear him, and ahvays finds work when he comes near. How difterent she is when some folks approach her ! I won't be presumptuous ; but I think, I think, I have made a not un- favourable impression in some quarters. However, let us be mum on this subject. I like to see her, because she always looks good- humoured ; because she is always kind, because she is always modest, because she is fond of those poor little brats — orphans 12 DOCTOR BIRCH, • some of them, — because she is rather pretty, I dare sa}'-, or because I think so, which comes to the same thing. Though she is kind to all, it must be owned she shows the most gross favouritism towards the amiable children. She brings them cakes from dessert, and regales them with Zoe's preserves ; spends many of her little shillings in presents for her favourites, and will tell them stories by the hour. She has one very sad story about a little boy, who died long ago ; the younger children are never weary of hearing about him ; and Miss Raby has shown to one of them a lock of the little chap's hair, which she keeps in her work-box to this day. ^ift^' '! .U ^ v,J^ AXD HIS YOUNG FRIENDS. 13 THE DEAR BBOTHERS. H ^Ttlotrrama in stitral ilounlis. The Doctor. Mr. Tipper, Uuele to the Masters Boxall. BoxALL Major, Boxall Minor, Bro-wt*, Jones, Siiixn, RoBixsox, TiFnx Mixmus. B. Go it old Boxall J. Give it liim young Boxall. R. Pitch into him old Boxall. iS*. Two to one on young Boxall. \^Enter Tiffix Meximts, running. Tiffin BTinimus. Boxalls ! you're wanted. ( The Doctor to Mr. Tijrper.) Every boy in the school loves them, my dear sir ; your nephews are a credit to my establishment. They are orderly'', well-conducted, gentleman-like boys. Let us en- ter and find them at their studies. [Enter The Doctor and})h'. Tipper. GRAND TABLEAU. 14 DOCTOR BIRCH, A HOPELESS CASE. Let us, people who are so uncommonly clever and learned, have a great tenderness and pity for the poor folks who are not endowed with the prodigious talents which we have. I have always had a regard for dunces ; — those of my own school-days were amongst the pleasantest of the fellows, and have turn- ed out by no means the dullest in life ; whereas many a youth who could turn off Latin hexameters by the yard, and con- strue Greek quite glibly, is no better than a feeble prig now, Avith not a pennyworth more brains than were in his head before his beard grew. Those poor dunces ! Talk of being the last man, ah ! what a pang it must be to be the last boy — huge, misshapen, fourteen years of age, — and "taken up " by a chap who is but six years old, and can't speak quite plain yet ! Master Hulker is in that condition at Birch's. He is the most honest, kind, active, plucky, generous creature. He can AND HIS YOUNG FRIENDS. 15 do many things better than most boys. He can go up a tree, jump, phay at cricket, dive and swim perfectly — he can eat twice as much almost as any lady (as Miss Birch well knows), he has a pretty talent at carving figures with his hack- knife, he makes and paints little coaches, he. can take a watch to pieces and put it together again. He can do everything but learn his lesson ; and there he sticks at the bottom of the school hopeless. As the little boys are drafted in from Miss Raby's class, (it is true she is one of the best instructresses in the world,) they enter and hop over poor Hulker. He would be handed over to the governess only he is too big. Sometimes I used to think, that this desperate stupidity was a stratagem of the poor rascal's ; and that he shammed dulness so that he might be degraded into Miss Raby's class : if she would teach me, I know, before George, I would put on a pinafore and a little jacket — but no, it is a natural incapacity for the Latin Grammar. If you could see his grammar, it is a perfect curiosity of dog's ears. The leaves and cover are all curled and ragged. Many of the pages are worn away, with the rubbing of his elbows as he sits poring over the hopeless volume, with the blows of his fists as he thumps it madly, or with the poor fellow's tears. You see him wip- ing them away with the back of his hand, as he tries and tries. and can't do it. 16 DOCTOR BIRCH, When I think of that Latin Grammar, and that infernal As in Prffisenti, and of other things which I was made to learn in my youth : upon my conscience I am surprised that we ever sur- vived it. AVhen one thinks of the boys who have been caned be- cause they could not master that intolerable jargon ! Good Lord, what a pitiful chorus these poor little creatures, send up! Be gentle with them, ye 'schoolmasters, and only whop those who won't learn. The Doctor has operated upon Hulker (between ourselves), but the boy was so little affected you would have thought he had taken chloroform. Birch is weary of whipping now, and leaves the boy to go his own gait. Prince, when he hears the lesson, and who cannot help making fun of a fool, adopts the sarcastic manner with Master Ilulker, and says, " Mr. Hulke^ may I take the liberty to inquire if your brilliant intellect has enabled you to perceive the difference between those words Avhich grammarians have defined as substantive and adjective nouns ? — if not, perhaps Mr. Ferdinand Timmins will instruct you.*' And Timmins hops over Hulker's head. I wish Prince would leave of girding at the poor lad. He's an only son, and his mother is a widow woman, who loves him with all her might. There is a famous sneer about the suckling of fools and the chronicling of small beer ; but remember it was a rascal who uttered it. AND HIS YOUNG FRIENDS. 17 A WORD ABOUT MISS BIRCH. " The Gentlemen, and especially the younger and more tender of the Pupils, •will have the advantage of the constant super- intendence and affectionate care of Miss Zoe Birch, sister of the Principal : whose dearest aim ivill be to supply (as far as may be) the absent maternal friend." — Prospectus of Rodwell Regis School. This is all very fine in the Doctor's circulars, and Miss Zoe Birch — (a sweet birch blossom it is, fifty-five years old, during two score of which she has dosed herself with pills ; with a nose as red and a face as sour as a crab-apple) — may do mighty well in a prospectus. But I should like to know who would take Miss Zoe for a mother, or would have her for one ? The only persons in the house who are not afraid of her are Miss Flora and I — no, I am afraid of her, though I do know the story about the French usher in 1830 — but all the rest tremble before the woman, from the Doctor down to poor Francis 2 18 DOCTOR BIECH, the knife-boy, and whom she bullies into his miserable blackinu- hole. The Doctor is a pompous and outwardly severe man— but inwardly w^eak and easy : loving a joke and a glass of port Avine. I get on with him, therefore, much better than Mr. Prince, who scorns him for an ass, and under whose keen eyes the worthy Doctor writhes like a convicted impostor ; and many a sunshiny afternoon would he have said, " Mr. T., Sir, shall we try another glass of that yellow sealed wine which you seem to like ?" (and which he likes even better than I do), had not the old harridan of a Zoe been down upon us, and insisted' on turning me out with her miserable weak coffee. She a mother indeed ! A sour milk generation she Avould have nursed. She is always croaking, scolding, bvillying, — yowling at the housemaids, snarling at Miss Raby, boww^owing after the little boys, barking after the big ones. She knows how much every boy eats to an ounce ; and her dehght is to ply with fat the little ones who can't bear it, and with raw meat those who hate underdone. It was she who caused the Doctor to be eaten out three times ; and nearly created a rebellion in the school because she insisted on his flogging Goliah Longman. The only time that woman is happy is when she comes in of a morning to the little boys' dormitories with a cup of hot Epsom salts, and a sippet of bread. Boo ! — the very notion makes me AND HIS YOUNG FRIENDS. 19 quiver. She stands over them. I saw her do it to young ByU^? only a few days since — and her presence makes the abomination doubly abominable. As for attending them in real illness, do you suppose that . she would watch a single night for any one of them? Not she. When poor little Charley Davison (that child, a lock of whose soft hair I have said how Miss Raby still keeps) lay ill of scarlet fever in the holidays — for the Colonel, the father of these boys, was in India — it was Anne Raby who tended the child, who Avatched him all through the fever, who never left him while it lasted, or until she had closed the little eyes that were never to brighten or moisten more. Anny watched and deplored him. but it was Miss Birch who wrote the letter announcing his demise, and got the gold chain and locket which the Colonel ordered as a memento of his gratitude. It was through a row with Miss Birch that Frank Davison ran away. I promise you that after he joined his regiment in India, the Ahmednuggar Irregulars, which his gallant father commands, there came over no more annual shawls and presents to Dr. and Miss Birch, and that if she fancied the Colonel was coming home to marry her (on account of her tenderness to his motherless childi-en, which he was always writing about), that notion was very soon given up. But these affairs are of early date, seven years back, and I only heard of them in a very confused manner from Miss Raby, who 20 DOCTOR BIRCH, was a girl, and had just come to Rodwell Regis. She is ahvays very much moved when she speaks about those boys, which is but seklom. I take it the death of the little one still grieves her tender heart. Yes, it is Miss Birch, who has turned away seventeen ushers and second masters in eleven years, and half as many French masters ; inconsolable, I suppose, since the departure of her favourite, M. Grinche, with her gold watch, &c, ; but this is only surmise — and Avhat I gather from the taunts of Miss Rosa when she and her aunt have a tiff at tea. But besides this, I have another way of keeping her in order. Whenever she is particularly odious or insolent to Miss Raby, I have but to introduce raspberry jam into the conversation, and the woman holds her tongue. She will understand me. I need not say more. Note, 12th Deceinher. — I may speak now. I have left the place and don't mind. I say then at once, and without caring two- pence for the consequences, that I saw this woman, this another of the boys, eating jam with a spoon out op Master Wiggins's TRUNK IN THE I30X-R00M ; and of this I am ready to take an affidavit any day. ';;no stole tiie "^ A serioi-is case / AND HIS YOUNG FEIENDS. 21 A TRAGEDY. THIS DRAMA OUGHT TO BE REPRESENTED IN ABOUT SIX CUTS. \The School is hushed. Lawrence the Prefect, and Custos of the rods, is march- ing after the Doctor into the operating-room. Master Backhouse is aloiU to follow.'^ Master Backhouse. It's all very well, but you see if I don't pay you out after school — you sneak, you. Master Lurcher. If you do I'll tell again. Kdt Backhouse. [77ie rod is heard from the adjoiaing apartment. Hwhish — Ilwhish — h wish — hwish — hwish — h wish — h wish. ] Re-enter Backhouse. 22 DOCTOR BIRCH, BRIGGS IN LUCK. Enter the Knife-hoy. — Hamper for Briggses ! Master Broivn. — Hurray, Tom Briggs ! I'll lend you my knife. If this story does not carry its own moral, what fable does, I wonder ? Before the arrival of that hamper, Master Briggs was in no better repute than any other young gentleman of the lower school ; and in fact I had occasion myself, only lately, to correct Master Brown for kicking his friend's shins during the writing-les- son. But how this basket directed by his mother's housekeeper, and marked " Glass with care," (whence I conclude that it con- tains some jam and some bottles of wine probably, as well as the usual cake and game-pie, and half a sovereign for the elder Master B., and five new shillings for Master Decimus Briggs) — how, I say, the arrival of this basket alters all Master Briggs's circumstances in life, and the estimation in which many persons re- gard him ! X ;^^ AND HIS YOUNG FRIENDS. 23 If he is a good-hearted boy, as I have reason to think, the very first thing he will do, before inspecting the contents of the hamper, or cutting into them with the knife which Master Brown has so considerately lent him ; will be to read over the letter from home Avhich lies on the top of the parcel. He does so, as I remark to Miss Raby (for whom I happened to be mend- ing pens when the little circumstance arose), with a flushed face and winking eyes. Look how the other boys are peering into the basket as he reads. — I say to her, " Isn't it a pretty picture ?" Part of the letter is in a very large hand. That is from his little sister. And I would wager that she netted the little purse which he has just taken out of it, and which Master Lynx is eyeing. " You are a droll man, and remark all sorts of queer things," Miss Raby says, smiling, and plying her swift needle and fingers as quick as possible. '• I am glad we are both on the spot, and that the little fellow lies under our guns as it were, and so is protected from some such brutal school-pirates as young Duval for instance, who would rob him probably of some of those good things, good in themselves, and better because fresh from home. See, there is a pie as I said, and which I dare say is better than those Avhich are served at our table (but you never take any notice of these kind of things, Miss Raby), a cake of course, a bottle of currant wine, jam-pots, and no end of pears in the straw. 24 DOCTOR BIECH, With this money little Briggs will be able to pay the tick which that imprudent child has run up with Mrs. Ruggles ; and I shall let Briggs Major pay for the pencil-case which Bullock sold to him. — It will be a lesson to the young prodigal for the future. " But, I say, what a change there will be in his life for some time to come, and at least until his present wealth is spent ! The bo^^s who bully him will mollify towards him, and accept his pie and sweetmeats. They will have feasts in the bed-room ; and that wine will taste more deliciously to them than the best out of the Doctor's cellar. The cronies will be invited. Young Master Wagg will tell his most dreadful story and sing his best song for a slice of that pie. AVhat a jolly night they will have ! When we go the rounds at night, Mr. Prince and I will take care to make a noise before we come to Briggs's room, so that the boys may have time to put the light out, to push the things away, and to scud into bed. Doctor Spry may be put in requisition the next morning. . ." " Nonsense ! you absurd creature," cries out Miss Raby laughing ; and I lay down the twelfth pen very nicely mended. " Yes ; after luxury comes the doctor, I say ; after extrava- gance, a hole in the breeches pocket. To judge from his disposition, Briggs Major will not be much better off a couple ^ AND HIS YOUNG FRIENDS. 25 of days hence than he is now, and, if I am not mistaken, will end life a poor man. Bro^Yn Avill be kicking his shins before a week is over, dej^end upon it. There are boys and men of all sorts, Miss R. — there are selfish sneaks who hoard until the store they daren't use groAvs mouldy — there are spendthrifts who fling away, parasites who flatter and lick its shoes, and snarling curs who hate and envy, good fortune."-^! put down the last of the pens, brushing away with it the quill-chips from her desk first, and she looked at me with a kind wondering face. I brushed them away, clicked the pen-knife into my pocket, made her a bow, and walked ofi" — for the bell was ringing for school. 26 DOCTOR BIRCH, A YOUNG FELLOW WHO IS PRETTY SURE TO SUCCEED. I If Master Briggs is destined in all probability to be a poor man, the chances are, that Mr. Bullock will have a very diifercnt lot. He is a son of a partner of the eminent banking firm of Bullock and Hulker, Lombard Street, and very high in the upper school — quite out of my jurisdiction, consequently. He writes the most beautiful current hand ever seen; and the way in which he mastered arithmetic (going away into recondite and wonderful rules in the Tutor's Assistant, which some masters even dare not approach) is described by the Doctor in terms of admiration. He is Mr. Prince's best algebra pupil ; and a very fair classic, too, doing everything well for which he has a mind. He does not busy himself with the sports of his comrades, and holds a cricket-bat no better than Miss Raby would. He employs the play hours in improving his mind, and reading the newspaper ; he is a profound politician, and, it must be owned, _Gceea m AND HIS YOUNG FRIENDS, 27 on the Liberal side. The elder boys despise him rather ; and when Champion Major passes, he turns his head, and looks down. I don't like the expression of Bullock's narrow, green eyes, as they follow the elder Champion, who does not seem to know or care how much the other hates him. No — Mr. Bullock, though perhaps the cleverest and most accomplished boy in the school, associates with the quite little bovs when he is minded for society. To these he is quite affable, courteous, and winning. He never fagged or thrashed one of them. He has done the verses and corrected the exer- cises of many, and many is the little lad to whom he has lent a little money. It is true he charges at the rate of a penny a week for every sixpence lent out, but many a fellow to whom tarts are a pre- sent necessity is happy to pay this interest for the loan. These transactions are kept secret. Mr. Bullock, in rather a whining tone, when he takes Master Green aside and does the requisite business for him, says, " You know you'll go and talk about it everywhere. I don't want to lend you the money, I want to buy something with it. It 's only to oblige you ; and yet I am sure you will go and make fun of me. Whereon, of course, Green, eager for the money, vows solemnly that the transaction shall be confidential, and only speaks when the payment of the interest becomes oppressive. 28 DOCTOR BIRCH, Thus it is that Mr. Bullock's practices are at all known. At a very early period indeed his commercial genius manifested itself; and by happy speculations in toflFey ; by composing a sweet drink made of stick liquorice and brown sugar, and selling it at a profit to the young children ; by purchasing a series of novels, which he let out at an adequate remuneration ; by doing boys' exercises for a penny, and other processes, he showed the bent of his mind. At the end of the half year he always went home richer than when he arrived at school, with his purse full of money. Nobody knows how much he brought : but the accounts are fabulous. Twenty, thirty, lift}-, — it is impossible to say how many sovereigns. When joked about his money, he turns pale and swears he has not a shilling : whereas he has had a banker's account ever since he was thirteen years old. At the present moment he is employed in negotiating the sale of a knife with Master Green, and is pointing out to the latter the beauty of the six blades, and that he need not pay until after the holidays. Champion Major has sworn that he Avill break every bone in his skin the next time that he cheats a little boy, and is bearing down upon him. Let us come away. It is frightful to see that big peaceful clever coward moaning under w&U-deserved blows and whining for mercy. Tiae ?jT3Xi AND HIS YOUNG FRIENDS. 29 DUVAL, THE PIRATE. (Jones MiMxirs passes, laden with tarts.) Duval. Hullo ! you small boy with the tarts ! Come here, Sir. Jones MhuTnus. Please, Duval, they ain't mine. Duval. you abominable young story-teller. \^He confiscates the goods. I think I like young Duval's mode of levying contributions better than Bullock's. The former's, at least, has the merit of more candour. Duval is the pirate of Birch's, and lies in wait for small boys laden with money or provender. He scents plunder from afar off: and pounces out on it. Woe betide the little fellow when Duval boards him ! There was a youth here Avhose money I used to keep, as he was of an extravagant and weak disposition ; and I doled it out to him in weekly shillings, sufficient for the purchase of the necessary tarts. This boy came to me one day for half a sovereign, for a very 80 DOCTOR BIRCH, particular purpose, lie said. I afterwards found lie wanted to lend the money to Duval. The young ogre burst out laughing, when in a great wrath and fury I ordered him to refund to the little boy ; and proposed a bill of exchange at three months. It is true Duval's father does not pay the doctor, and the lad never has a shilling, save that which he levies ; and though he is always bragging about the splendour of Freenystown, Co. Cork, and the fox-hounds his father keeps, and the claret they drink there — there comes no remittance from Castle Freeny in these bad times to the honest Doctor, who is a kindly man enough, and never yet turned an insolvent boy out of doors. AND HIS YOUNG FRIENDS. 31 THE DORMITORIES. MASTER HEWLETT AND MASTER NIGHTINGALE. {Rather a cold minter night.) Hewlett {jlinging a shoe at Master Nightingays bed with which he hits that young gentleman) Hullo! You! Get up and bring me that shoe. Nightingale. Yes, Hewlett. [He gets wp.) Hewlett. Don't drop it, and be very careful of it, Sir. Nightingale. Yes, Hewlett. Hetvlett. Silence in the Dormitory ! Any boy who opens his mouth I'll murder him. Now, Sir, are not you the boy what can sing? Nightingale. Yes, Hewlett. Hewlett. Chaunt then till I go to sleep, and if I wake when you stop, you'll have this at your head. [I^Iaster Hewlett lays his Bluchers on the bed, ready to shy at Master Nightingale's head in the case contemplated. DOCTOR BIRCH, Nightingale {timidly) Please, Hewlett ? Heiclett. Well, Sir. Nightingale. ISIay I put on my trowsers, please ? Hewlett. No, Sir. Go on, or I'll — Nightingale, — " Through pleasures and palaces Though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, There's no place like home. "Home, home! sweet, sweet home! There's no place like ho-ome ! There's no place like home !" {Da Capo.) xLoncLe s w e c L Jn AND HIS YOUNG FRIENDS. A CAPTURE AND A RESCUE. My young friend, Patrick Champion, George's younger brother, is a late arrival among us ; has much of the family quality and good-nature ; is not in the least a tyrant to the small boys, but is as eager as an Amadis to fight. He is boxing his way up the school, emulating his great brother. He fixes his eye on a boy above him in strength or size, and you hear somehow that a difference has arisen between them at football, and they have their coats off presently. He has thrashed himself over the heads of many youths in this manner ; for instance, if Champion can lick Dobson, who can thrash Hobson, how much more, then, can he thrash Hobson. Thus he works up and establishes his position in the school. Nor does Mr. Prince think it advisable that we ushers should walk much in the way when these little differences are being settled, unless there is some gross disparity, or danger is apprehended. For instance, I own to having seen the row depicted here as 3 34 DOCTOR BIRCH, I was shaving at my bed- room Avindow. I did not hasten down to prevent its consequences. Fogle had confiscated a top, the property of Snivins, the which, as the little wretch was always pegging it at my toes, I did not regret. Snivins whimpered ; and young Champion came up lusting for battle. Directly he made out Fogle, he steered for him, pulling up his coat-sleeves, and clearing for action. " Who spoke to you^ young Champion ?" Fogle said, and he flung down the top to Master Snivins. I knew there would be no fight ; and perhaps Champion, too, was disappointed. \ ii.es ciie AND HIS YOUNG FRIENDS. THE GAEDEN, WHEKB THE PARLOX.-R-EOARDERS GO. Noblemen have been rather scarce at Birch's — hut the heir of a great Prince has been living with the Doctor for some years. — He is Lord George Gaunt's eklest son, the noble Plan- tagenet Gaunt Gaunt, and nephew of the most Honourable the Marquis of Steyne. They are very proud of him at the Doctor's — and the two Misses and Papa, whenever a stranger comes down whom they want to dazzle, are pretty sure to bring Lord Steyne into the conversation, mentioning the last party at Gaunt House, and cursorily remarking that they have with them a young friend who will be in all human probability Marquis of Steyne and Earl of Gaunt, (fcc. Plantagenet does not care much about these future honours : provided he can get some brown sugar on his bread and butter, or sit with three chairs and play at coach and horses, quite quietly by himself, he is tolerably happy. He saunters in 36 DOCTOR BIRCH. and out of school when lie likes, and looks at the masters and other boys with a listless grin. He used to be taken to church, but he laughed and talked in odd places, so they are forced to leave him at home now. He will sit with a bit of string and play cats-cradle for many hours. He likes to go and join the very small children at their games. Some are frightened at him, but they soon cease to fear, and order him about. I have seen him go and fetch tarts from Mrs. Ruggles for a boy of eight years old ; and cry bitterly if he did not get a piece. He cannot speak quite plain, but very nearly ; and is not more, I suppose, than three-and-twenty. Of course at home they know his age, though they never come and see him. But they forget that Miss Rosa Birch is no longer a young chit as she was ten years ago, when Gaunt was brought to the school. On the contrary, she has had no small experience in the tender passion, and is at this moment smitten with a dis- interested affection for Plantagenet Gaunt. Next to a little doll with a burnt nose, which he hides away in cunning places, jNIr. Gaunt is very fond of Miss Rosa too. What a pretty match it would make ! and how pleased they would be at Gaunt House, if the grandson and heir of the great Marquis of Steyne, the descendant of a lumdred Gaunts and Tudors, should marry Miss Birch, the schoolmaster's daughter ! It is true she has the sense on her side, and poor Plantagenet is AND HIS YOUNG FRIENDS. 37 only an idiot : but there lie is, a zany, with such expectations and such a pedigree ! If Miss Rosa would run away with IMr. Gaunt, she would leave off bullying her cousin, Miss Anny Raby. Shall I put her up to the notion, and offer to lend her the money to run away? Mr. Gaunt is not allowed money. He had some once, but Bullock took him into a corner, and got it from him. He has a moderate tick opened at the tart-woman's. He stops at Rodwell Regis through the year, school-time and holiday time : it is all the same to him. Nobody asks about him, or thinks about him, save twice a year, when the Doctor goes to Gaunt House, and gets the amount of his bills, and a glass of wine in the steward's room. And yet you see somehow that he is a gentleman. His man- ner is different to that of the owners of that coarse table and parlour at which he is a boarder (I do not speak of Miss R. of course, for her manners are as good as those of a Duchess). When he caught Miss Rosa boxing little Fiddle's ears, his face grew red, and he broke into a fierce, inarticulate rage. After that, and for some days, he used to shrink from her ; but they are reconciled now. I saw them this afternoon in the garden, where only the parlour-boarders walk. He was playful, and touched her with his stick. She raised her handsome eyes in surprise, and smiled on him very kindly. 38 DOCTOR BIRCH, The thing was so clear, that I thought it my duty to speak to old Zoe about it. The -wicked old catamaran told me she wished that some people would mind their own business, and hold their tongues — that some people were paid to teach writing, and not to tell tales and make mischief: and I have since been thinking whether I ought to communicate with the Doctor. Xisr 3lT3 flower Gajrden. AND HIS YOUNG FRIENDS. THE OLD PUPIL. As I came into the play-grounds this morning, I saw a dash- ing young fellow, with a tanned face and a blonde mous- tache, who was walking up and down the green, arm-in arm with Champion Major, and followed by a little crowd of They were talking of old times evidently. "' What had become of Irvine and Smith ?" — " Where was Bill Harris and Jones, not Squinny Jones, but Cocky Jones ?" — and so forth. The gentle- man was no stranger ; he was an old pupil evidently, come to see if any of his old comrades remained, and to revisit the cari luogi of his youth. Champion was evidently proud of his arm-fellow. He espied his brother, young Champion, and introduced him. " Come here. Sir," he called. " The young 'un wasn't here in your time, Davi- son." " Pat, Sir," said he, " this is Captain Davison, one of Birch's boys. Ask liim who was among the first in the lines at Sobraon V- 40 DOCTOR BIRCH, Pat's face kindled up as he looked Davison ftill in the face, and held out his hand. Old Champion and Davison both blushed. The infantry set up a " Hurray ! hurray ! hurray !" Champion leading, and waving his wide-avrake. I protest that the scene did one good to witness. Here was the hero and cock of the school come back to see his old haunts and cronies. He had always re- membered them. Since he had seen them last, he had faced death and achieved honour. But for my dignity I would have shied up my hat too. With are solute step, and his arm still linked in Champion's, Captain Davison now advanced, followed by a wake of little boys, to that corner of the green where Mrs. Ruggles has her tart- stand. " Hullo, Mother Ruggles ! don't you remember me ?" he said, and shook her by the hand. " Lor, if it ain't Davison Major !" she said. " Well, Davison Major, you owe me fourpence for two sausage-rolls from when you went away." Davison laughed, and all the little crew of boys set up a simi- lar chorus. " I buy the whole shop," he said. " Now, young 'uns — eat away !" Then there was such a " Hurray ! hurray !" as surpassed the former cheer in loudness. Everybody engaged in it except AND HIS YOUNG FRIENDS. 41 Piggy Duff, wlio made an instant dash at tlic three-cornered puffs, but was stopped by Champion, \yho said there should be a fair distribution. And so there was, and no one lacked, neither of raspberry open-tarts, nor of mellifluous bull's eyes, nor of polonies, beautiful to the sight and taste. The hurraying brought out the Doctor himself, who put his hand up to his spectacles and started when he saw the old pupil. Each blushed when he recognised the other ; for seven years ago they had parted not good friends. " What — Davison ?" the Doctor said, with a tremulous voice. " God bless you, my dear fellow !" — and they shook hands. " A half-holiday, of course, boys," he added, and there was another hurray : there was to be no end to the cheering that day. •' How's the family, Sir ?" Captain Davison asked. " Come in and see. Flora's grown quite a lady. Dine with us, of course. Champion Major, come to dinner at five. Mr. Titmarsh, the pleasure of your company?" The Doctor swung open the garden-gate : the old master and pupil entered the house reconciled. I thought I would just peep into Miss Raby"s room, and tell her of this, event. She Avas Avorking away at her linen there, as usual, quiet and cheerful. " You should put up," I said with a smile ; " the Doctor has given us a half-holiday." 42 DOCTOR BIRCH, " I neter have holidays," Miss Raby replied. Then I told her of the scene I had just witnessed, of the arrival of the old pupil, the purchase of the tarts, the procla- mation of the holiday, and the shouts of the hoys of " Hurray, Davison." " Who is it ?" cried out Miss Raby, starting and turning as white as a sheet. I told her it was Captain Davison from India, and described the appearance and behaviour of the Captain. When I had finished speaking, she asked mc to go and get her a glass of water ; she felt unwell. But she was gone when I came back with the water. I know all now. After sitting for a quarter of, an hour with the Doctor, who attributed his guest's uneasiness no doubt to his desire to see Miss Laura Birch, Davison started up and said he wanted to see Miss Raby. " You remember. Sir, how kind she was to my little brother," he said. Whereupon the Doctor, with a look of surprise that anybody should want to see Miss Raby, said she was in the little school- room, whither the Captain went, knowing the way from old times. A few minutes afterwards, Miss B. and Miss Z. returned from a drive with Plantagenet Gaunt in their one-horse fly, and vvajitte^L a. vc^cvexjiess . AND HIS YOUNG FRIENDS. 43 being informed of Davison's arrival, and that he was closeted with Miss Raby in the little school-room, of course made for that apartment at once. I was coming into it from the other door. I wanted to know whether she had drunk the water. This is what both parties saw. The two were in this ver}^ attitude. '■ Well, upon my word !" cries out Miss Zoe. But Davison did not let go his hold ; and Miss Raby's head only sank down on his hand. " You must get another governess, Sir, for the little boys,"' Frank Davison said to the Doctor. " Anny Raby has promised to come with me." You may suppose I shut to the door on my side. And when I returned to the little school-room, it was blank and empty. Everybody was gone. I could hear the boys shouting at play in the green, outside. The glass of water was on the table where I had placed it. I took it and drank it myself, to the health of Anny Raby and her husband. It was rather a choker. But of course I wasn't going to stop on at Birch's. When his young friends re-assemble on the 1st of February next, they will have two new masters. Prince resigned too, and is at present living with me at my old lodgings at Mrs. Cammysolc's. If any nobleman or gentleman wants a private tutor for his son, a note to the Rev. F. Prince will find him there. 44 DOCTOR BIECH, AND HIS YOUNG FEIENDS, Miss Clapperclaw says we are both a couple of old fools ; and that she knew, when I set off last year to Rodwell Regis, after meeting the two young ladies at a party at General Champion's house in our street, that I was going on a goose's errand. Well, well, that journey is over now; I shall dine at the General's on Christmas-day, where I shall meet Captain and Mrs. Davison, and some of the old pupils of Birch's ; and I wish a merry Christmas to them, and to all young and old boys. EPILOGUE. The play is done ; the curtain drops, Slow falling, to the prompter's bell : A moment yet the actor stops, And looks around, to say farewell. It is an irksome word and task ; And when he's laughed and said his say, He shows, as he removes the mask, A face that's anything but gay. One word, ere yet the evening ends, Let 's close it with a parting rhyme, And pledge a hand to all young friends, As fits the merry Christmas-time. On life's wide scene you, too, have parts. That Fate ere long shall bid you play ; 46 EPILOGUE. Good night ! "with honest gentle hearts A kindly greeting go alway ! Good night ! — I'd say, the griefs, the joys, Just hinted in this mimic page, The triumphs and defeats of boys, Are but repeated in our age. I'd say, your woes were not less keen, Your hopes more vain, than those of men j Your pangs or pleasures of fifteen. At forty-five played o'er again. I'd say, we suffer and we strive Not less nor more as men than boys ; With grizzled beards at forty-five, As erst at twelve, in corduroys. And if, in time of sacred youth. We learned at home to love and pray. Pray Heaven, that early Love and Truth May never wholly pass away. And in the world, as in the school, I'd say, how fate may change and shift ; The prize be sometimes with the fool, The race not always to the swift. EPILOGUE. 47 The strong may yield, the good may fall, The great man be a vulgar clown, The knave be lifted over all, The kind cast pitilessly do-^vn. Who knows the inscrutable design ? Blessed be He who took and gave ! Why should your mother, Charles, not mine, Be weeping at her darling's grave ?* We bow to Heaven that will'd it so, That darkly rules the fate of all. That sends the respite or the blow, That's free to give or to recalL This crowns his feast with wine and wit : Who brought him to that mirth and state ? His betters, see, below him sit, Or hunger hopeless at the gate. Who bade the mud from Dives' wheel To spurn the rags of Lazarus ? Come, brother, in that dust we'll kneel. Confessing Heaven that ruled it thus. C. B., ob. 29 Nov. 1848, aet. 42. 48 EPILOGUE. So each shall mourn, in life's advance, Dear hopes, dear friends, untimely killed ; Shall grieve for many a forfeit chance. And longing passion unfulfilled. Amen ! whatever fate he sent, — Pray God the heart may kindly glow, Although the heart with cares be bent, And whitened with the winter-snow. Come wealth or want, come good or ill. Let young and old accept their part. And bow before the Awful Will, And bear it with an honest heart. Who misses, or who wins the prize ? Go, lose or conquer as you can : But if you fail, or if you rise, Be each, pray God, a gentleman, A gentleman, or old or young ! (Bear kindly with my humble lays) ; The sacred chorus first was sung Upon the first of Christmas-days : Tlie shepherds heard it overhead — The joyful angels raised it then : EPILOGUE. 49 Glory to Heaven on high, it said, And peace on earth to gentle men. My song, save this, is little worth ; I lay the weary pen aside, And wish you health, and love, and mirth, As fits the solemn Christmas-tide. As fits the holy Christmas birth, Be this, good friends, our carol still- Be peace on earth, be peace on earth, To men of gentle will. THE END. D. 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