Tom Brown's School Days

CHAPTER I--THE BROWN FAMILY

“I'm the Poet of White Horse Vale, sir, With liberal notions under my cap.”--Ballad

The Browns have become illustrious by the pen of Thackeray and the pencil of Doyle, within the memory of the young gentlemen who are now matriculating at the universities. Notwithstanding the well-merited but late fame which has now fallen upon them, any one at ...