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For little more than a shilling per week any reader who lives far away in the country can have relays of books sent him at the rate of fifteen volumes per relay. Very satisfactory. Most satisfactory too are the Board-school libraries, from which a million children obtain the best and noblest of literature without money and without price.
It was a pleasant enough place on this summer afternoon, contrasted with the dingy streets whence we had come, though its grass was faded and yellow and the twitter of the birds in the trees mingled with the hideous Board-school drawls of the children who played around the seats and the few remaining tombs. "So this is the last resting-place of the illustrious house of Bellingham," said I.
"Don't they teach you to count at the Board-school?" he asked. "Nowt but algibbra an' French," said a collier. "An' cheek an' impidence," said another. Paul was keeping someone waiting. With trembling fingers he got his money into the bag and slid out. He suffered the tortures of the damned on these occasions.
'Hold what you please about systems and movements, and fight for what you hold; only, as an individual never say never think! that it is in the order of things, in the purpose of God, that one of these little ones this Board-School child, this man honestly out of work, this woman "sweated" out of her life should perish! A contradiction, or a commonplace, you say? Well and good.
Tallente demanded. "Just what the words indicate," was the almost fierce reply. "You're Eton and Oxford, not board-school and apprentice. Your brain brings you to the cause of the people, not your heart. You aren't one of us and never could be. You're an aristocrat, and before we knew where we were, you'd be legislating for aristocrats. You'd try and sneak them into your Cabinet.
She rose and curtseyed when she saw Mr. and Mrs. Carroll, for she was a well-trained country child, not yet contaminated by the modern 'Board-school manners. So she curtseyed civilly, and stood while her master and mistress were present; and when Mr.
That they were men of the finest type only the sentimentalists can declare. But they kept to the life of daylight. They are England's hope. Clumsily they carry forward the torch of the sun, until such time as the nation sees fit to take it up. Half clodhopper, half board-school prig, they can still throw back to a nobler stock, and breed yeomen. At the chalk pit a motor passed him.
A mile from our house was a board-school, but it would not have been keeping up our position to send me there. I learned to read and write, but, Great God! curiosity will make a child do that. If he isn't curious to learn what's the use of him learning? He just forgets it, as I forgot it, as you did too very likely, forgot it and learned it again when you needed to.
Amy Hewett was shortly at the point when the education of a board-school child is said to be 'finished; by good luck, employment was found for her in Kentish Town, with three shillings a week from the first. John could not resign himself to being a mere burden on the home. Enforced idleness so fretted him that at times he seemed all but out of his wits.
Mr. Raymond Martin, beyond question, was born in a gutter, and bred in a board-school, where they played marbles. The volunteer cadet-corps fell in next Monday, depressedly, with a face of shame. Even then, judicious silence might have turned the corner. Said Foxy: "After a fine speech like what you 'eard night before last, you ought to take 'old of your drill with re-newed activity.
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