ABSTRACT
I. The family: the grandfather and the father.—II. Aldborough and its surroundings.—III. Home life in childhood and early youth.—IV. A “dame-school.” Early curiosity. An excursion on the Alde.—V. At school in Bungay. First literary reading. The Stowmarket school. Return to Aldborough: the sea, the river, and the common.
