Follow My leader
The Boys of Templeton
By Talbot Baines Reed
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Having now read all of this author's books about school life - rather
dated even to me - I feel that this book is the one I have enjoyed the
most. It was not published as a book until seven or eight years after
the author's death, but that was because the book had been published in
serialised form in the Boy's Own Paper.
While the original text looked quite nice it suffered from having been
typeset either by an apprentice or by someone rather eccentric. For
example words with an apostrophe representing the "o" of "not" had the
apostrophe consistently in the wrong place, for example "would'nt"
instead of "wouldn't". We have very carefully cleaned up this class of
error, and hope no more are to be found.
We have heard the audiobook, and it is good.
The main heroes of the story are all lovable gentle little chaps, but
dreadful things happen, like a boat they have used goes missing, and a
folding pencil one of them desperately desires in the stationer's shop
goes missing from the shop. Thus throughout the book there is a
constant tension as to whether the police will be called, and eventually
one of the boys sends for his father to help sort matters out, as they
had got far beyond his own ability to deal with things.
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FOLLOW MY LEADER
THE BOYS OF TEMPLETON