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Frederick Wackerbath Bradshaw

A silver-tongued schoolboy fabulist whose gift for plausible explanation can charm a furious master into sudden friendship — and land his friends in detention.

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Also known as Bradshaw, the talented Frederick, the wretched Bradshaw

First appearance: now talking about cricket

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The central figure of the chapter, a cunning and unscrupulous schoolboy who schemes to avoid studying for the Euripides exam and later fabricates an elaborate excuse.

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Bradshaw moves through St. Austin's as the boy who can talk his way out of anything, a talent that both fascinates and exasperates his classmates. When he works off a private explanation to Mellish in under five minutes, the two emerge like long-lost brothers, leaving his friends desperate to extract the secret and Prater's sudden summons to the Headmaster hinting that even Bradshaw's eloquence has limits. His gift for fiction makes him the axis around which the school's scrapes and mysteries turn.

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Bradshaw’s Little Story
The central figure of the chapter, a cunning and unscrupulous schoolboy who schemes to avoid studying for the Euripides exam and later fabricates an elaborate excuse.
A Shocking Affair
Protagonist of the tale; devises a scheme to avoid the Thucydides exam by locking himself in the Museum.
The Manoeuvres of Charteris
Schemes before the Euripides exam, contributing to the academic intrigue.
IV
Mentioned as the Bargees' secretary who recognizes Charteris at the Rutton sports and questions his presence.

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