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


BY
GILBERT CANNAN
AUTHOR OF “ROUND THE CORNER”


D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
    NEW YORK                LONDON
    1917




Copyright, 1914. by
    D. APPLETON AND COMPANY




TO
    MY WIFE




J’aime les fables des philosophes, je ris de celles des enfants, et je hais celles des imposteurs.
L’INGÉNU.  
CONTENTS
   PAGE
I.PRELUDE                         3
II.MARRIAGE                         99
III.INTERLUDE                         147
IV.TOYS                         171
V.IN THE SWIM                         203
VI.OUT OF IT                         289
VII.APPENDIX                         347
I

    PRELUDE
His star is a strange one! One that leadeth him to fortune by the path of frowns! to greatness by the aid of thwackings!
THE SHAVING OF SHAGPAT
[Pg 3]
I

PRELUDE
A SENSITIVE observer, who once spent a week in theatrical lodgings in Thrigsby, has described the moral atmosphere of the place as “harsh listlessness shot with humor.” That is about as far as you can get in a week. It is farther than Herbert Jocelyn Beenham, M.A. (Oxon.), got in the twenty-five years he had given to the instruction of the youth of Thrigsby in its Grammar School—the foundation of an Elizabethan bishop. Ambition ever leads a man away from Thrigsby. Having none, H. J. Beenham had stayed there, a                        
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