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Updated: May 23, 2025
But he replied, 'Yes, and all the while worked with his right heel as though he were heeling a ball at punt-about. Though none dared to boast of being a favourite with King, the taciturn, three-cornered Winton stood high in his House-Master's opinion. It seemed to save him neither rebuke nor punishment, but the two were in some fashion sympathetic. 'Hm! said King drily.
Tom wondered within himself, as they strolled back again towards the fives court, whether the matches were really such break-neck affairs as East represented, and whether, if they were, he should ever get to like them and play up well. He hadn't long to wonder, however, for next minute East cried out, "Hurrah! here's the punt-about; come along and try your hand at a kick."
The punt-about is the practice-ball, which is just brought out and kicked about anyhow from one boy to another before callings-over and dinner, and at other odd times.
"I've seen McTurk being hounded up the stairs to elegise the 'Elegy in a Churchyard, while Beetle and Stalky went to punt-about." "It amounts to systematic cribbing," said Prout, his voice growing deeper and deeper. "No such thing," little Hartopp returned. "You can't teach a cow the violin." "In intention it is cribbing."
"Well, that's all there is to it, Nona. These conviction chaps, these booming politicians and honours-list chaps, these Bagshaw chaps you know Bagshaw? they go like a cannon ball. They go like hell and smash through and stick when they get there. My sort's like the footballs you see down at the school punt-about. Wherever there's a punt I feel it and respond to it.
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