This page has been validated.
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.
HE 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 all acquainted with the family must feel that much has yet to be written and said before the British nation will be properly sensible of how much of its greatness it owes to the
[ 3 ]
