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Updated: June 15, 2025
They wanted to get square with Captain Rover because he had won at the athletic contests and at the drill." "I see," said Captain Putnam grimly, and then he ordered Ben Hurdy to keep absolutely silent until called on to speak. "If you say a word now I'll dismiss you at once," he concluded.
"All right, Flapp, I'll get the right fellows," answered Ben Hurdy, and ran away to fulfill his questionable errand.
Small boys and girls with piercing yells kept darting under elbows, old women dozed on doorsteps, babies screamed on every side. Mothers leaned out of windows, and by their faces you could see that they were screaming angrily for children to come up to bed. But you could not hear their cries. Here around a hurdy gurdy gravely danced some little girls.
"Let us have a regular contest," said one of the cadets, and all was arranged for a match on the following morning after drill. The students were enthusiastic over the match, some thinking one side would win and others favoring the opponents. "Tom's crowd will win that match," said Sam. "What makes you so sure?" questioned Ben Hurdy. "Oh, Tom knows how to pull and how to manage the others."
Without delay he summoned Ben Hurdy to his private tent and made the young cadet undergo a strict cross-examination. At first Hurdy would not talk, but soon he became frightened and broke down utterly. He told of the plot against Dick, and of how Flapp and the others had carried it out. "I didn't want to go into it," he whined. "But Flapp said he would thrash me if I didn't do my share.
"Well, that is one more we owe that crowd," observed Flapp with increased bitterness. When Jackson was dressed he and Flapp took themselves to another part of the camp, and there met Pender, Rockley, and Ben Hurdy. "Let us take a walk," said Jackson. "I am sick of staying around where the others can stare at me." "Come with me," put in Pender. "I have found something I want to show you."
And here, in the last imaginable place, there sprang up young outlandish voices and a chatter of some foreign speech; and I saw, pursuing the coach with its load of Hebridean fishers as they had pursued VETTURINI up the passes of the Apennines or perhaps along the grotto under Virgil's tomb two little dark-eyed, white-toothed Italian vagabonds, of twelve to fourteen years of age, one with a hurdy- gurdy, the other with a cage of white mice.
Savoyard with his face overcast. "No, Eccellenza!" then pausing a little, he says briskly, "Si, si!" and plays a solemn air on the hurdy- gurdy stops rests one hand on the instrument, and raises the other to heaven. Pisistratus understands: the father is like the hurdygurdy, at once dead and living. The mere form is a dead thing, but the music lives.
In a manner not to be easily explained, the camp divided itself into two factions, one led by Dick and Major Larry, and the other led by Lew Flapp and Pender. To the former belonged the Rovers and their numerous chums, and to the latter Rockley, Ben Hurdy, and boys of a similar turn.
Then came a race of a quarter of a mile for the little cadets and this was won by Harry Moss, with Joe Davis a close second. Lew Flapp had backed up Ben Hurdy, but cigarettes had done their work on Hurdy and his wind gave out long before the race came to a finish. "Good for you, Harry," said Dick, slapping the little cadet on the back. "That was a fine run you made.
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