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ERIC

OR, LITTLE BY LITTLE

A TALE OF ROSLYN SCHOOL

By

FREDERIC W. FARRAR, D.D.

Author of "The Life of Christ," "Julian Home," "St. Winifreds,"etc

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY

GEORGE A. TRAVER

1902

CONTENTS

PART I.

CHAPTER I--CHILDHOOD.
CHAPTER II--A NEW HOME.
CHAPTER III--BULLYING.
CHAPTER IV--CRIBBING.
CHAPTER V--THE SECOND TERM.
CHAPTER VI--HOME AFFECTIONS.
CHAPTER VII--ERIC A BOARDER.
CHAPTER VIII--"TAKING UP".
CHAPTER IX--"DEAD FLIES," OR "YE SHALL BE ASGODS".
CHAPTER X--DORMITORY LIFE.
CHAPTER XI--ERIC IN COVENTRY.
CHAPTER XII--THE TRIAL.
CHAPTER XIII--THE ADVENTURE AT THESTACK.
CHAPTER XIV--THE SILVER CORDBROKEN.
CHAPTER XV--HOME AGAIN.

PART II.

CHAPTER I--ABDIEL.
CHAPTER II--WILDNEY.
CHAPTER III--THE JOLLY HERRING.
CHAPTER IV--MR. ROSE AND BRIGSON.
CHAPTER V--RIPPLES.
CHAPTER VI--ERIC AND MONTAGU.
CHAPTER VII--THE PIGEONS.
CHAPTER VIII--SOWING THE WIND.
CHAPTER IX--WHOM THE GODS LOVE DIEYOUNG.
CHAPTER X--THE LAST TEMPTATION.
CHAPTER XI--REAPING THE WHIRLWIND.
CHAPTER XII--THE STORMY PETREL.
CHAPTER XIII--HOME AT LAST.
CHAPTER XIV--CONCLUSION.

ILLUSTRATIONS

BULLYING.
ERIC Vignette on title-page.
SMOKING.
ON THE ROCK.
OUT OF THE WINDOW.
ERIC AND VERNON.
HIDING.
ERIC ESCAPING FROM THE SHIP Frontispiece.

ERIC: OR, LITTLE BY LITTLE

PART I.

CHAPTER I

CHILDHOOD

"Ah dear delights, that o'er my soul
On memory's wing like shadows fly!
Ah flowers that Joy from Eden stole,
While Innocence stood laughing by."--COLERIDGE.

"Hurrah! hurrah! hurrah!" cried a young boy, as he caperedvigorously about, and clapped his hands. "Papa and mamma will behome in a week now, and then we shall stay here a little time, andthen, and then, I shall go to school."

The last words were enunciated with immense importance, as hestopped his impromptu dance before the chair where his sober cousinFanny was patiently working at her crochet; but she did not look somuch affected by the announcement as the boy seemed to demand, sohe again exclaimed, "And then, Miss Fanny, I shall go toschool."

"Well, Eric," said Fanny, raising her matter-of-fact quiet facefrom her endless work, "I doubt, dear, whether you will talk of it