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He then went on to tell in beautiful words the story of the wanderings of his hero, a tale that has now been read and re-read for nearly two thousand years, by all who have wished to call themselves educated; generations of school-boys, and schoolgirls too, have slowly made their way through the Latin of its twelve books.
"Donkeys dance on ropes, school-boys dabble in doctor's business! Show me the thing at once! We want no quack wares." "Quack wares!" replied Adrian eagerly. "It cost all my fair money, and it's good medicine." During this little discussion Doctor Bontius came down-stairs with the burgomaster's wife. He had heard the boy's last words and asked sternly: "Where did you get the stuff?"
'Spanked school-boys' and all " "Did you tell him my father said that?" he demanded. "No. I had more sense left than that," said Kate. "I only said all his boys FELT like that. Then I pulled the table after me to block the door, and smashed half the dishes and he slipped in the fried potatoes and went down with a crash " "Bloody Murder!" cried young Adam, aghast. "Me, too!" said Kate.
A messenger from the king had arrived the princess Bent-Anat had been attacked by the Kolchytes and a wag among the school-boys who had got out, declared that Paaker, the king's pioneer, had been brought into the temple by force to be made to learn to write better.
They looked at one another in blank dismay; there was an end to their speculations for the rest of that term, and by the next Mr Slam junior would have decamped from the paternal abode, for when the racing season commenced he flew at far higher game than the purses of rustics and school-boys. "Can't come no more, can't yer?" said Josiah.
The reasonableness of this step is so obvious that it should scarcely need insistence. "The instruction of school-boys and school-girls is most adequately effected by an elderly doctor," Näcke remarks, "sometimes perhaps the school-doctor." Moll is of the same opinion. I have further developed this argument in "Religion and the Child," Nineteenth Century and After, 1907.
"You are lucky indeed," returns Madame Deschars with evident jealousy. "Still, a wife who discharges all her duties, deserves such luck, it seems to me." When this terrible sentiment falls from the lips of a married woman, it is clear that she does her duty, after the manner of school-boys, for the reward she expects. At school, a prize is the object: in marriage, a shawl or a piece of jewelry.
A generation or two ago most school-boys had either farm work, chores, errands, jobs self-imposed, or required by less tender parents; they made things, either toys or tools, out of school. Most school-girls did house-work, more or less of which is, like farm-work, perhaps the most varied and most salutary as well as most venerable of all schools for the youthful body and mind.
The poor school-boys did not even sing a psalm when the former lord of Borreby was laid in the earth to rest. O-h, everything has an end, even misery. Sister Ida became the wife of a peasant; that was the hardest trial which befell our father, that the husband of his own daughter should be a miserable serf, whom his owner could place for punishment on the wooden horse.
"Near yours?" she queried. Ford stopped to consider. "To tell the truth, I don't know where mine is," he confessed. "I bought it as the school-boys trade pocket-knives sight unseen. You wouldn't believe it of a grown man, would you?" "What made you buy it at all?" Again he told the simple truth and tried not to flinch. "You won't mind if I say that the name attracted me?