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Not for nothing had he fought Tim Hagan to a standstill and, co-equal, ruled the schoolyard roost with him. He was birthed of the wild gold-adventure of Forty-nine. He was a reared aristocrat and a grammar-school-trained democrat.
His eyes wander from the black-board where the Merchant's dry lines are scanned and marked. ´ ´ ´ ´ ´ In sooth, I know not why I am so sad. And then ... his thoughts have clambered through the window. They have leaped across the schoolyard wall. Still in his ears he hears the jogging of the Merchant but the sound grows dim. Like that other lad of long ago, his thoughts have jumped the hills.
The cheering was tremendous, but behind the royal carriage the cheers were always redoubled where the old Duke, the especial favourite hero, rode. When they got off their horses in the schoolyard, the Duke being by some mistake behindhand, was regularly hustled in the crowd, with no attendant near him.
"I don't know what you fellows are laughing at," he said, with a look of supreme innocency; "but I suppose you don't know any better. It's your ignorance of the value of family relics like that; and because you never see me bouncing about the schoolyard with my turban on, you think I haven't got one in my box I mean, had one; so now no more nonsense.
The committee went to the Board of Education once more, this time with better success. They received permission to open and conduct, during the long vacation, one playground in a large schoolyard.
But when Keith appeared in the schoolyard during one of the pauses next day, he was met from every side by the cry: "There's the explorer! There's the explorer!" The younger boys jeered openly at him. The older ones pretended to ask him serious questions about his plans.
"For shame, Danny Rugg, to hit Bert so hard as that!" cried Nan. "Oh, you keep still, Nan Bobbsey!" retorted Danny. "This is our sport, not yours." "But you shouldn't have come so close before you threw the snowball." "I know what I'm doing," growled the big boy, running off. The whack in the ear made that member ache, and Bert did not feel near so full of fun when he entered the schoolyard.
But the boy from the Netherlands had not been born and brought up in the muscle-building air of the Dutch dikes for nothing, and after a few moments he found himself looking down on his tormentor and into the eyes of a crowd of very respectful boys and giggling girls who readily made a passageway for his brother and himself when they indicated a desire to leave the schoolyard and go home.
They are rarely cruel after they have been taught to think on the subject. Wiggan and his older brother had taken Blackamoor from a nest in the top of a hemlock-tree. By this time the reader will have guessed that Blackamoor was the young crow which became one of our schoolhouse pets. At first we built a pen for him at the farther corner of the schoolyard, where we kept him until he could fly.
Both Phil and Teddy were more than ordinarily interested in this act, for they were no mean performers on the rings themselves. In the schoolyard an apparatus had been rigged with flying rings, and on this the boys had practiced untiringly during the spring months, until they had both become quite proficient.
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