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Other times they played what was supposed to be golf over a course of their own selection and creation at the top of the Meadow, and if by any chance the minister got a ball into a hole, then Nestie danced for a space and the minister apologised for his insolent success.
Times there were warm, summer days when the minister would bring a book with him and read to Nestie as they lay in a grassy hollow together. And on these days they would fall a-talking, and it would end in a photograph being taken from a case, and after they had studied it together, both would kiss the face, which was as if Nestie had kissed himself.
"Best thing you ever did, Speug," said Nestie on the way home, "since you p pulled me out of the Tay, and I should say that you have a good chance of the prize. What the Count wants is ori gin ginality, and I never heard a chap with so much original talk as you've got, Speug.
Nestie brought him forward to the bedside, and at last he had courage to look, and it took him all his time to play the man when he saw Bulldog so thin, so quiet, so gentle, with his face almost as white as the pillow, and his hands upon the bedclothes wasted like to the hands of a skeleton.
"Was he?" said Bulldog, regarding Speug's confusion with unconcealed delight; "that is quite his public character in this school, and there's nobody better known. My advice" here Bulldog stopped, and looked from Speug to Nestie as one who was about to say something and had changed his mind "is to ... be friends with Peter."
"It's split more tops than any one in the school; it's a r-ripper," and Nestie exhibited its deadly steel point with much pride, while Speug endeavoured to look unconscious as the owner of this instrument of war. "Dod, I'll have a try myself," said Bulldog. "It's many a year since I've spun a top.
Speug took two balls and placed them in the hollow of his left arm, feeling them carefully to see that they would leave a mark when they struck a Penny. The third he took in his right hand, and Nestie had the reserve.
When things had come to this pass and he never had expected anything so good Speug withdrew unobtrusively behind a clump of trees, and then ran swiftly to a hollow where Nestie was waiting with the juniors. "Noo, my wee men," said Peter to the innocents, "div ye see that path?
"Did you go to the people that had the dip ... dip ... in the throat, or not? that's a word I can't manage yet, but I heard Miss Leti-titia and the girls say you were like the soldiers 'at got the Vic Victoria Cwoss." "That's d-different, Nestie; that's my d-duty." "Well, it's my d-duty to go to the S-Seminary, pater;" and so he went. "What's your name?"
Robertson, who was the hope of the Seminary, went out for twenty, and Bauldie for ten; Nestie played carefully, but only managed twelve, and the other fellows were too easily bowled or caught out, each adding something, but none doing much, till at last the score stood at sixty-nine; with the last two of the Seminary in.
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