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He can turn cartwheels, stand on his head, ride see-saw, throw snowballs, play ball, crow like a cock, eat bread and butter and drink sour milk, tear his trousers, wear holes in his elbows, break the crockery in pieces, throw balls through the windowpanes, draw old men on important papers, walk over the flower-beds, eat himself sick with gooseberries, and be well after a whipping.
Lord, Sir Peter, I wonder you should grudge me the most innocent articles in dress and then for the expense flowers cannot be cheaper in winter you should find fault with the climate, and not with me. I am sure I wish with all my heart, that it was Spring all the year round, and that roses grew under one's feet. "Sir P. Nay, but, madam, then you would not wear them; but try snowballs and icicles.
A nurse spilled champagne over the tiny ship, till it was drenched, and christened. The chief doctor made a speech of thanks. Then the ship went around the table, and each guest wrote her name on the sails. The party climbed out into the garden, where the shells were going high overhead like snowballs. In amongst the blackened flowers, a 16-inch shell had left a hole of fifty feet diameter.
"Oh, well, I'll put some raw beefsteak on it when I get to the cabin. I've heard that's good. Jake caught me a hard one in the eye." "Fighting! Disgraceful!" murmured Will's sister. "It was the best way out snowballs," said Allen in a low voice, while Will and Frank were comparing notes. "It might have been more serious only for that. It was because they set the trap that Amy was caught in."
With all possible speed the young soldiers started to supply themselves with snowballs, and soon each had ten to twenty in his hands and pockets and under his arms or at his feet. "Get ready!" shouted Bart, as he glanced hastily at his watch. "Give it to 'em hot when the bell rings!" came from Henry Lee. Half a minute more and the Hall bell commenced to toll out the hour.
That was far worse than snowballs, even with stones in them.
Anguish snapped his fingers and sarcastically invited the insulter to meet him next winter in a battle with snowballs, upon which the aggressor blasphemed in three languages and three hundred gestures. Anguish and his men passed inside the gates, which had been barred to the others, and struck out rapidly for the castle doors.
Turning, they delivered a parting shower of snowballs, and then ran on, in the direction of the school. "I guess the Pornell fellows will remember that for awhile," panted Pepper, when they felt safe. "And just think of it three to nine!" chuckled Andy. "They thought they had us dead to rights," came from Jack. "Well, I guess we showed them a trick or two they won't forget right away."
"I want to sleep." "I do, too," added her mother. Nothing happened that night, and in the morning there was enough snow on the ground for the making of a small snow man, at least, and as many snowballs as the children wanted to throw at him. Flossie and Freddie were warmly dressed, and allowed to play out in a little yard in front of the hotel.
Lawrence's pleased sparkle that he had been invited to stand in the list; and the strange, the absurd spectacle of a young schoolmaster taking the heroic attitude for attack and defence wrestled behind her eyes with a suddenly vivid first-of-May cricketing field, a scene of snowballs flying, the vision of a strenuous lighted figure scaling to noble young manhood.
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