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Updated: May 2, 2025
"The trout are always there, at any rate." It was a long walk to Pendle Tor, and appetites, sharpened by the fresh air of the hills, began to grow rather keen; but as they had all resolved not to have their picnic before they had reached the summit, they staved off the edge of their hunger with a few biscuits, and, trudging on, covered the last mile in such quick time that Leonard declared it reminded him of a paper-chase.
He hated scouting at cricket, he loathed the very name of a paper-chase, and as for running an errand, why, before anyone could finish saying something was wanted he would have utterly disappeared. He was rather small for his age;-and I don't think had ever been seen with a clean face.
Moor Court shut up and deserted, except for the few servants left in charge, to keep it clean and in good order. I only went there once all that winter, and I never went again. I could not bear it. For in among the trees where we played I came upon the traces of our last paper-chase, and passing the side of the house it was even worse.
A capital paper-chase had recently engaged the entire community; the pace had been unusually severe; the obstacles large and formidable especially the notorious Log Jump and casualties were not a few.
The schoolboy has other devices for keeping up the manly character in the family circle. He has made unheard-of expeditions up the river, has chaffed a farmer almost into apoplexy, has come in fifth in the house paper-chase, has put the French master to open shame, and has got his twenty-two colours.
"Well," began Rathson, "it all came out through young Bayley acting the fool and spraining his ankle. You know we had the paper-chase this morning, and the hares ran out to Arrow Hill, and back again round by the canal and Birksam Church. Just after we'd rounded the hill, young Bayley jumped off the top of a high hedge, and twisted his foot so badly that he couldn't stand up.
The season was still early when the Bicycle Paper-chase was proposed and arranged. It was Jack Brady's suggestion, and every boy to whom it was named jumped at the idea. Mr. West granted permission, provided that a master accompanied them, and Norman Hallett drifted into the post of captain.
Fortescue spoken less gravely and not been so obviously in earnest, I should have thought he was joking. "You don't mean Was it a paper-chase?" I said, rather foolishly. "No; it was not a paper-chase," he answered, grimly. "There were no paper-chases in my time. I mean that I was once hunted, just as we have been hunting that fox." "With a pack of hounds?" "Yes, with a pack of hounds."
"O, follow, follow! Through the caverns hollow, As the song floats thou pursue, Where the wild bee never flew " and he ran dancing forward after the great Tramp, singing the words as though they were his own. Yet the flowers spread so thickly that the trail soon lost itself; it seemed like a paper-chase where the hare had scattered coloured petals instead of torn white copy-books.
Well, the eventful day came at last, and nearly the whole school mustered at Cramp Corner to see the sport. For the half-mile race, which was to come off first, there were only two fellows competing. Our man was Barlow of paper-chase celebrity while the sixth were very confident of winning with Chesney, a hero nearly six feet high.
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