By Talbot Baines Reed
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For some reason this book was quite hard to convert to e-Book, so that
if any error is detected by a reader I would be grateful if I could be
told, either by email, or by using our Bulletin Board.
This is another story set in a nineteenth century boy's boarding school,
and is quite similar to "The Fifth Form at Saint Dominic's".
At the time it was greatly acclaimed, and said to be very like a real
boarding school, but things must have changed because I was at one such
school only fifty years after this book was written, and I can't imagine
any of it happening at my school. On the other hand I was also at a
boarding school for boys aged 8 to 13, which was much more like the
school in this story. As I say, things must have changed.
It takes about ten hours to play as an audiobook. There are a number of
quite tense incidents, particularly when a party of boys decide to walk
up a nearby mountain, and the weather turns very nasty. This is in
chapters 17 to 19. But there are many other well-described incidents,
so do read the book, remembering that boys' slang has changed greatly in
the past hundred years.
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THE COCK-HOUSE AT FELLSGARTH