"When I was a little boy at school, floundering through Herodotus, and getting double doses of fum-fum daily for my Anabasis—for my old teacher, when he couldn't get enough Greek into one end of me, took jolly good care to put it in at the other—there was no man I had greater respect for than Alexander the Great, owing to his having done that business so neatly. I practiised afterwards on the dominie's tawse (i.e., the fum-fum strap); I tied a splendid knot on it, and then cut it through with a jackknife; but woe's me! the plaguy dominie caught me in the very act, and—and I had to take my meals standing for a week."
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William Gordon Stables
(published as Gordon Stables; 21 May 1840 – 10 May 1910) was a Scottish medical doctor and surgeon in the , medical columnist, and author of several non-fiction books and more than 100 boys' , usually with a nautical or historical setting. Stables was a leading authority on dogs. From 1907 to 1910 he was the vice-president of the .
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