Portal:Children's literature/Selected quote/18
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[edit]- Jack Zipes; Lissa Paul; Lynne Vallone, eds. (2005). "Thomas Hughes". The Norton Anthology of Children's Literature. W. W. Norton & Co. pp. 1841–2. ISBN 0393327760.
| The master of the week being short-sighted, and the parepostors of the week small, and not well up to their work, the lower school boys employ the ten minutes which elapse before their names are called, in pelting one another vigorously with acorns, which fly about in all directions. The small praepostors dash in every now and then, and generally chastise some quiet, timid boy, who is equally afraid of acorns and canes, while the principal performers get dexterously out of the way; and so calling-over rolls on somehow, much like the big world, punishments lighting on wrong shoulders, and matters going generally in a queer, cross-grained way, but the end coming somehow, which is after all the great point. |