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42<br />

ALL L\ A GARDEX I-AIR.<br />

talk about notli<strong>in</strong>g else. Where are <strong>the</strong> people<br />

^vho read books and talk about th<strong>in</strong>gs that<br />

don't mean money ? '<br />

' I don't know,' Will answered. ' I don't<br />

hate money. With money you can buy what-<br />

ever you like. The richer I get <strong>the</strong> better I<br />

shall like it. With money, <strong>All</strong>en, you can<br />

even buy books.'<br />

They went to an old grammar school about<br />

two miles nearer town. To ^et <strong>the</strong>re <strong>the</strong> lads<br />

had to tram}) <strong>the</strong> two miles <strong>the</strong>re and back<br />

every day ; <strong>the</strong>y marched side by side ; fre-<br />

quently, on Saturday afternoons especially, <strong>the</strong>y<br />

would encounter otlier lads from Stratford,<br />

Bow, Clapton, Stepney, and Old Ford. Then<br />

<strong>the</strong>re would be a fight, <strong>in</strong> which <strong>the</strong>y sometimes<br />

came <strong>of</strong>f victors and sometimes had to retire.<br />

Yet not <strong>in</strong>gloriously, for who could resist <strong>the</strong><br />

ponderous charge <strong>of</strong> Will, master <strong>of</strong> an iron<br />

fist, ambidexter, <strong>the</strong> Achilles <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Forest ?<br />

Beside him charged <strong>All</strong>en, as plucky yet not so<br />

stout <strong>of</strong> build ; and, outside <strong>the</strong> melee^ Tommy<br />

plied <strong>the</strong> dexterous pebble. Insomuch that

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