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Updated: June 27, 2025
He is known to fame as the author of the leading work on the Roman Wall, and as an antiquary of high repute. I have a grateful recollection of many of his acts during my school career; and, looking back, there are none I now esteem more highly than the attempts he constantly made to interest his pupils in the general affairs of the world outside the school-gates.
At the School-gates he made a dead pause; there was not a soul in the quadrangle all was lonely, and silent, and sad. So with another effort he strode through the quadrangle, and into the School-house offices. He found the little matron in her room in deep mourning; shook her hand, tried to talk, and moved nervously about.
"One spurt more, hares!" cries another, "and you are safe!" On we bound, and on comes the pursuer, not ten yards behind not ten, but more than five. And that five he never makes up till Birch and I are safe inside the school-gates, winners by a neck and a neck only of that famous hunt. The pack came straggling in for the next hour, amid the cheers and chaffing of the boys.
The confectioner's shop patronized by the Melchester boys was situated in a quiet street some five minutes' walk from the school-gates.
By this time they had reached the school-gates. "Look here," broke in Valentine, "don't you bother us any more, or we'll put a policeman on your track. I don't understand a word of what you've been saying, and " "Stop, stop, Fenleigh!" interrupted a deep voice. "What's the meaning of this, pray?" The two boys looked up and found they were standing in the presence of the headmaster.
And so Tom descended, and wended his way drearily by the side of the keeper, up to the Schoolhouse, where they arrived just at locking-up. As they passed the School-gates, the Tadpole and several others who were standing there caught the state of things, and rushed out, crying, "Rescue!" But Tom shook his head; so they only followed to the Doctor's gate, and went back sorely puzzled.
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