Identifier: tombrownsschoold00hugh4 (find matches)
Title: Tom Browns school-days
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Hughes, Thomas, 1822-1896
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Publisher: New York, London, Harper & Brothers
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ng ginger-beer bottles to their mouths.It is no ginger-beer, though, I fear, and will do you no good. Oneshort, mad rush, and then a stitch in the side, and no more honestplay; thats what comes of those bottles. But now Griffiths baskets are empty, the ball is placed againmidway, and the School are going to kick off. Their leadershave sent their lumber into goal and rated the rest soundly, andone hundred and twenty picked players-up are there, bent onretrieving the game. They are to keep the ball in front of theSchool-house goal, and then to drive it in by sheer strength andweight. They mean heavy play and no mistake, and so oldBrooke sees; and places Crab Jones in quarters just before thegoal, with four or five picked players, who are to keep the ballaway to the sides, where a try at goal, if obtained, will beless dangerous than in front. He himself, and Warner andHedge, who have saved themselves till now, will lead thecharges. Are you ready? Yes. And away comes the ball kicked (106)
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GET UP THERE—THERES A LITTLE FELLOW UNDER YOU . SCHOOL DAYS high in the air, to give the School time to rush on and catch it asit falls. And here they are among us. Meet them like English-men, you School-house boys, and charge them home. Now is thetime to show what mettle is in you—and there shall be a warmseat by the hall fire, and honor, and lots of bottled beer to-nightfor him who does his duty in the next half-hour. And they arewell met. Again and again the cloud of their players-up gathersbefore our goal, and comes threatening on, and Warner or Hedge,with young Brooke and the relics of the bulldogs, break throughand carry the ball back; and old Brooke ranges the field like Jobswar-horse—the thickest scrummage parts asunder before his rush,like the waves before a clippers bows; his cheery voice rings overthe field, and his eye is everywhere. And if these miss the ball,and it rolls dangerously in front of our goal, Crab Jones and hismen have seized it and sent it away toward

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