Octavo olive pictorial cloth with bevelled edges (tips worn, cloth a bit marked) [viii] +237pp +[1] +12 +[4]pp publisher's lists. A neat clean copy with Victorian inscription ("C. Bartlett given him by his sister Emmie") at top of half title. Endpapers and page facing them are foxed else pages clean and unfoxed, no tears or marks. *Story of a boy who wishes to escape from his village upbringing and while the eldest goes to a training college for teachers the youngest wants to travel especially by the new railway. In London he lodges with a Chartist and his daughter. All unconsciously he is able to help the moral guidance of this family. A typical Victorian moral tale.