Harry "Scud" East topic

A character in Thomas Hughes' novel "Tom Brown's Schooldays", a schoolboy of the same level as Tom Brown himself.  When he first meets Tom, he's described as "a genuine specimen" of "a lower-school boy"; "frank, hearty, and good-natured, well-satisfied with himself and his position, and choke-full of life and spirits, and all the Rugby prejudices and traditions which he had been able to get together in the long course of one half-year during which he had been at the School-house".