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Updated: May 8, 2025
But before he could get into the tub again, to prepare for the clear spring out of it, he beheld a man with silver buttons coming across the playing-field. His heart fell into his heels, and no more agility remained in him. And the boys, who understood his nature, with a poignant love like that of our friends in this world began to probe his tender places. "One more jump, Captain Scuddy!
He remembers how one day he looked at his schoolfellows on the playing-field and said to himself, "If when I grow up I am as clever among grown-up men as I am among these boys, I shall be a famous man." Another sentence about these days suggests what a difficult inarticulate genius was his.
Athens, the home of a different stock, gives us the other extreme their capacity for rich and spontaneous individual development. To pass from Sparta to Athens, is to pass from a barracks to a playing-field.
Coles and the baby are doing charmingly. Could it be that, after all this, and much more, the Playing-field was a Station, and No. 97 expectorated boiling water and redhot cinders on it, and the whole belonged by Act of Parliament to S.E.R.? As it could be, and was, I left the place with a heavy heart for a walk all over the town. And first of Timpson's up-street.
"Yes, of course, that is the side on which they need encouragement," he rejoined drily. "Majuba was lost on the playing-field of Lord's." There was a moment of shocked surprise. Lady Chelmer, herself a martyr to the religion of sport thus blasphemed of which she understood as little as of any other religion hastily tried to pour tea on the troubled waters. But they had been troubled too deeply.
When one o'clock arrived on the first afternoon, and neither Ainger, Wake, Wignet, Tilbury, Herapath, nor the other familiar frequenters of the playing-field, put in an appearance, speculation began to pass about as to the cause of their absence. Some of Bickers's boys knew there had been a "howling shine" about something.
Cutting allusions to the "Literary Society" and sarcastic retorts were exchanged in the corridors and playing-field; and so the feud continued. All his classmates were charmed with Jack's share in the performance. "You wait," was his invariable answer to their congratulations; "I'll take a better rise out of them before long."
And if the right bit of magic comes their way, those children have the power to go back and forth in time just as other children go back and forth in space the space of a room, a playing-field, or a garden alley. Often children lose this power when they are quite young.
Even the ordinary civilised little boy, the nice little gentleman who is as much at home in the drawing-room as at his desk in the school-room or with a bat in the playing-field even that harmless little person seems somehow unnatural, or denaturalised to my primitive taste. A result, I will have it, of improper treatment.
The area railings, the beloved shop-window, the smell of semi-suburban tanpits, the song of the church-bells upon a Sunday, the thin, high voices of compatriot children in a playing-field what a sudden, what an overpowering pathos breathes to him from each familiar circumstance! The assaults of sorrow come not from within, as it seems to him, but from without.
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