However, she would not play, and Mother
said she had much rather she did not, as she was so afraid of her
getting hit by the ball. So that settled it, and I was very glad not
to have to give up going to the school matches.
The school we went to was the old town grammar school. It was a very
famous one; but it was not so expensive as big public schools are, and
I believe this was why we lived in this town after my father's death,
for Mother was not at all rich.
The grammar school was very large, and there were all sorts of boys
there--some of gentlemen, and tradesmen, and farmers. Some of the boys
were so very dirty, and had such horrid habits out of school, that
when Rupert was thirteen, and I was ten, he called a council at the
beginning of the half, and a lot of the boys formed a committee, and
drew up the code of honour, and we all subscribed to it.
The code of honour was to forbid a lot of things that had been very
common in the school. Lying, cheating over bargains, telling tales,
bragging, bad language, and what the code called "conduct unbecoming
schoolfellows and gentlemen." There were a lot of rules in it, too,
about clean nails, and shirts, and collars and socks, and things of
that sort.
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