Excerpt from Old Mole: Being the Surprising Adventures in England of Herbert Jocelyn Beenham, M.A., Sometime Sixth-Form Master at Thrigsby Grammar School in the County of Lancaster It was with a glow of satisfaction that H. J. Been ham took Out his master's hood and his best mortar board on the eve of Speech Day and laid them out in his bedroom. This was at five o'clock in the afternoon, for he had promised to spend the evening with the Panoukian family at Bungsall, on the north side Of the city. It was a heavy July day and he was rather tired, for he had spent the morning in school reading aloud from the prose works of Emer son, and the afternoon had been free, owing to the necessity of a replay of the Final in the inter-form cricket championship between his boys and the Mod ern Transitus. He had intended to illuminate the event with his presence, but Thrigsby in July is not pleasant, and so he had come out by an early train to his house at Bigley in the hills which overflow Derbyshire into Cheshire. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.