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Updated: May 9, 2025
It is enough to say that Clarence had reached a level of emotional eloquence rarely met with among goal-keepers of the First League, when Isabel broke from him with a startled exclamation, and vanished; and, looking over his shoulder, Clarence observed Mr Daniel Rackstraw moving towards him. It was evident from the millionaire's demeanour that he had seen nothing.
The two sides change goals, and the School-house goal-keepers come threading their way across through the masses of the School, the most openly triumphant of them amongst whom is Tom, a School-house boy of two hours' standing getting their ears boxed in the transit.
There it flies, straight between the two posts, some five feet above the cross-bar, an unquestioned goal; and a shout of real, genuine joy rings out from the School-house players-up, and a faint echo of it comes over the close from the goal-keepers under the Doctor's wall. A goal in the first hour such a thing hasn't been done in the School-house match these five years. "Over!" is the cry.
Each side displayed some excellent passing, but when the whistle blew at half time, neither had scored. By this time all the girls were hot and panting, except the Goal-keepers, and were ready for the brief rest. Our Eleven stood in a group together, sharing the lemons which the Clinton girls provided, and discussing the events of the last half-hour.
There stands the School-house prepostor, safest of goal-keepers, and Tom Brown by his side, who has learned his trade by this time. Now is your time, Tom. The blood of all the Browns is up, and the two rush in together, and throw themselves on the ball, under the very feet of the advancing column the prepostor on his hands and knees, arching his back, and Tom all along on his face.
"Got the rules in your pocket, too, I suppose." "I have," said Todd "for reference. But I know now, Higgins, that goal-keepers cannot take more than two steps with the ball, and " Sharpe's lot guffawed at Todd's neat little thrust at Higgins's little failing as a goal-keeper. "But don't you worry, Hig; I'll see you through all right. Three-quarter each way, I suppose?"
The months sped by; the Cup-ties began, and soon it was evident that the Final must be fought out between Houndsditch Wednesday and Mr Jacob Dodson's pet team, Manchester United. With each match the Wednesday seemed to improve. Clarence was a Gibraltar among goal-keepers. Those were delirious days for Daniel Rackstraw. Long before the fourth round his voice had dwindled to a husky whisper.
Everything seems to depend on these animals. With their various occupations, lectures in the evening, and games of football when it was not unusual for the goal-keepers to get their toes frost-bitten in the afternoons, the winter passed steadily on its way; the only stroke of misfortune being that one of the dogs died suddenly and that a post-mortem did not reveal any sufficient cause of death.
His face is earnest and careful as he glances a last time over his array, but full of pluck and hope the sort of look I hope to see in my general when I go out to fight. The School side is not organized in the same way. The goal-keepers are all in lumps, anyhow and nohow; you can't distinguish between the players-up and the boys in quarters, and there is divided leadership.
Nevertheless we have proof that they secretly watched the interlopers, and were not above taking an idea from them; for John introduced a new way of hitting the bubble, with the head instead of the hand, and the mermaid goal-keepers adopted it. This is the one mark that John has left on the Neverland.
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