The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3)

part in boyish indecorums. He was, in short, just the diligent,

cheerful, healthy-minded schoolboy that any good father would have his son to be. He enjoys himself with his brother at the Christopher, and is glad to record that 'Keate did not make any jaw about being so late.' Half a dozen of them met every whole holiday or half, and went up Salt Hill to bully the fat wait...