Retitled 'The Short-Timers' in collected editions of the series.
The Uncommercial's recollection of being 'one of seventy boys' at a school is closer to the circumstances of Dickens's life than the depiction of schooldays in the previous item: Wellington House Academy, Hampstead Road, which Dickens attended between 1825 and 1827, was a day school of about this size (see Vol. 1 of Dent edition of Dickens's Journalism, pp. xxx-xxxi).
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