Excerpt from The Poetical Works Oliver's training stables out at Prestbury, where he met some of the most famous sporting personages of the day. This bore an unexpected fruit when, at the conclusion of his Woolwich career, he was sent to the Royal Grammar School at Worcester. For there he distinguished himself by stealing a mare from her stable to ride her in the steeplechase. This mare was the often-quoted Lallah Rookh, and the attendant scandal is believed to have been one of the causes which sent Gordon out to Australia. He was at the Worcester Grammar School for a year or more, and then went back to Cheltenham College for a year. How a boy with a past, eighteen years old, came to be readmitted there has not been explained. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.