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William received a good plain education at a Quaker school at Ackworth, and grew up a genuine country lad, scouring the lanes on his famous grey pony, Peter Scroggins, the acknowledged leader of the village lads in bird-nesting and rat-hunting expeditions, and taking his full share of the work on his father's little farm.
His friends gave them no weight, and when he wanted to talk emphatically he kept them back, though they were then as troublesome to him as eggs to the bird-nesting boy who has to speak with his spoil in his mouth. Adam was drowned on Gavin's fourth birthday, a year after I had to leave Harvie. He was blown off his smack in a storm, and could not reach the rope his partner flung him.
The boys did a good deal of looking for the missing donkey, but also managed to combine with that a few other things, such as bird-nesting, picking wild strawberries, and enjoying themselves as only boys can, when roaming about in the open air. At last rather late in the afternoon they spied in the distance a donkey, and delighted to think their quest was at an end, they hastened up to it.
If this be true, we find in some contemporary canvases of this English school a curious reproduction of the favorite pastimes of children. One is called "bird-nesting," the title descriptive of the favorite diversion thus depicted.
"Morra, Sonny!" "Morra, Anna!" "Aany day but Sunday he may go, dear, but not th' day." That was all that was needed. Sonny wanted me to take him bird-nesting. He had the price in the bundle. "If I give ye this now," he said, "will ye come some other day fur nothin'?" "Aye." In the bundle was a "bap" a diamond-shaped, flat, penny piece of bread. I rejoined the cup-tossers. Another whistle.
"It is extremely interesting," say his biographers, "to contemplate this great man, when thus removed from the busy scenes in which he had borne so distinguished a part to the remote village of Burnham Thorpe;" but the interest seems by their account to be limited to the energy with which he dug in the garden, or, from sheer want of something to do, reverted to the bird-nesting of his boyhood.
I wouldn't like to leave my purse in the way of a boy who went bird-nesting. I should know he had a bad heart. Yes, the country is the place for boys. Just as if I didn't know what was best for boys, if I am a woman. I tell you, some of the greatest heroes in the world have had women for mothers.
Before he could recover himself, she had planted another blow' or two. 'And where is its nest? Between the earth and the sky is vague. But then to be sure it must want a good deal of room. And after all, a mountain is a strange fowl, and who knows where it might lay? Between earth and sky is quite definite enough? Besides, the bird-nesting boys might be dangerous if they knew where it was.
"Over there." "Where's there?" "On the stile. She's always there when we're out, except she's looking after me." "Thou lackest looking after." "Philip Tye said he'd see to me: and then he went off with Jem Morris, bird-nesting." "Cruel lads! well, you're a proper lot! It'd do you good, and me too, to give you a caning all round. I shall have to let be to-night, for I want to find Cicely."
Nothing venture, nothing win; and nobody goes bird-nesting without a fall at times. If any one wants to be safe in this life, he'd best stay at home and keep his bed; though even there, who knows but the roof might fall through on him?" "Ah, it's all very well for you, captain," said some grumbling younker, with a vague notion that Amyas must be better off than he, because he was a gentleman.
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