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The green needs little or no equipment, but it gains recognition as the boys' own training-field and serves as a safeguard to the health and morals of the youth of the community. The gang and the green are the proper social institutions of boy life in the rural community. 118. =Girls' Clubs.= The instinct of the girl is not the same as that of the boy.
Crowds gathered round and ate gingerbread and drank beer. A lot of worthless fellows used to wander round the country, and pick up a living by wrestling and betting on themselves. Such a man appeared on the training-field that day. "Here I am, boys, at your service, Sam Sloan, the champion wrestler of Essex County.
You are well enough now to hear the truth." "It is your right, madam, to say to me what you may like." Von Rittenheim turned his stern face towards the training-field, and kept his eyes upon the moving forms that shifted below him. Mrs. Carroll was unabashed. "Dr. Morgan is an old and tried friend of mine and of all my family. He has seen life come and go at Oakwood.
"Looking out of her chamber window," said Aunt Rawson, "I saw the people who had been to the hanging coming back from the training-field; and when Anne Broadstreet did hear the sound of their feet in the road, she groaned, and said that it did seem as if every foot fell upon her heart. Presently Mr. Broadstreet came home, bringing with him the minister, Mr. John Norton.
So I stayed at home, and it was well I did, for the company only got as far as Springfield, where they were met by messengers from Webb, who had got over his fright, telling them to return. They came back to Lexington, having been out only twelve days. When they returned, we had a great jollification. The company marched to the training-field, and went through the exercises.
Madge, sitting Queen Bess with an ease and grace which that intelligent mare had never found in any other rider, and, now, far from them at the other end of the great training-field, absorbed the youth's delighted glances. "Can't you forget her for an instant?" exclaimed Barbara. "You haven't been at all the same since you came back from the mountains! Once we were always together.
As a child, I loved to see the colors of the holiday-soldiers flapping in the wind and flaunting in the sun on "muster-day." "bones are dust, And their good swords rust"; And no wonder at that, perhaps. For you will find hundreds who have been cut by the sword or pierced by the bullet of a Rebel, to one who has been ever so slightly wounded upon a holiday training-field.
"Looking out of her chamber window," said Aunt Rawson, "I saw the people who had been to the hanging coming back from the training-field; and when Anne Broadstreet did hear the sound of their feet in the road, she groaned, and said that it did seem as if every foot fell upon her heart. Presently Mr. Broadstreet came home, bringing with him the minister, Mr. John Norton.
The powers of the higher life are to develop as truly as those which we call physical and mental. The family is the great human culture-bed for the development of those powers, their training-field and school.
They were passing through a shrubbery that led to the training-field, and there came the quick thud of hoofs galloping on short turf as they approached. "I don't think there is much doubt about that," Maud said. Saltash laughed again mockingly. "Oh, we all know Jake is invincible, virtuous rectitude incarnate.
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