I have never read this, but want to read it in preparation for reading the Flashman series( also never read, but remember the stir when these started to be published). Dated in style, but awfully god, so I can see why it has been so enduring... Naturally much about Flashman and then his expulsion from Rugby. I loved the boys wanting to sneak off and read their Marryat.

The classic is of course freely available at Gutenberg.