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Hello, Thanks everyone for your excellent replies. I think it is more than just stopping away from school because it is marked in the school record as stopping, rather than just absent. It only begins to be mentioned in autumn of the school year so I thought that it must be related to the start of the shooting or hunting seasons. We also live close to two large estates which do a lot of shooting and there is a hunt close by. Regards, tjp

Hello, I have just been reading some old school records from 1912. It appears that truancy became something of a problem in the early autumn each year when with boys would take time off to go 'stopping'. I believe this is an old fashioned hunting and shooting term. I would be grateful if anyone could tell me what it means and anything about this practice in 1912. Many thanks tjp