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Updated: June 8, 2025
They cast furtive glances at him, noting his new suit of brown clothes, his geography and atlas, his arithmetic, and, last of all, his face. "There's a new scholar," said Peter Rose, or, as he was called, "Pewee" Rose, a stout and stocky boy of fourteen, who had just been caught out by another. "I say, Greeny, how did you get so brown?" called out Will Riley, a rather large, loose-jointed fellow.
"I wonder," Billy was saying, becoming more and more audacious, it seemed, on the principle that give one an inch and he will want an ell "I wonder now if he'd listen to me if I asked him to let us have a chance to get in the next picture?" Monkey Stallings laughed harshly at hearing that. "Well, you are a greeny, Billy, I must say," he declared.
Four miles away on the left as you went from Ervillers, the guns mumbled over the hills, low hills over which the Verys from the trenches put up their heads and peered around, greeny, yellowy heads that turned the sky sickly, and the clouds lit up and went grey again all the night long. As you got near to Behagnies you lost sight of the Verys, but the guns mumbled on.
The place was irregular of shape but very spacious and lighted by a narrow, weed-choked crevice high up that admitted a soft, greeny glow very pleasing after the glare of the sun; by which light I perceived that from this cave two smaller caves opened.
"We're all sophs but one greeny," called one of the girls. "Glad to see you, Jessie Pease." "Thank you, Miss. The new one is to go to the Madame at once. That is the order. Let her go before supper." The driver snapped his whip and the 'bus rumbled on. The drive was winding and the trees soon hid the lighted lodge. But other bright lamps began to appear ahead.
The walls of the gardens on each side bulged out, coated with a grey, leprous growth; umbrageous trees drooped over, foliage rained down, here and there an ivy plant thickly mantled the stonework, and the chequered verdure, which only left glimpses of the blue sky above, made the light very soft and greeny.
They were brown and white and pink, beautifully shaded, and his body was covered with rings of brown satin. Blacky and Greeny were not so handsome. They had orange-spotted bodies, great wings of sober gray, and carried long flexible tubes curled like a watch-spring, that could be stretched out to suck honey from the flowers. At sunset Miss Ruth sent for the boys.
Without a word, I crept cautiously up to my look-out place, listening to the loud shouting and gabbling of the Chinamen as I got nearer to the tuft of greeny growth, which I parted without so much hesitation now, and, looking out, I could see that by the warm glow of the late afternoon sun which made me shrink back with my heart sinking, and creep down again to Ching. "Yes?" he whispered.
"Officers and soldiers have their wives and children here, you greeny," said his brother, sharply. "Look out there and see 'em." And, sure enough, as Sandy's eyes followed the direction of his brother's, he saw two prettily dressed ladies and a group of children walking over the smooth turf that filled the square in the midst of the fort.
The farmer's face fell and he stared at the youth blankly. "You are certain of this?" "Yes. We are after the crowd now. If we catch them we'll put them in prison, just as sure as you are the greatest greeny we ever met," continued Dick, and motioned to Harris to continue the journey. The farmer wanted to "talk back," as the saying is, but could find no words.
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