The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1920-12-10

KIN, whose Scandal.Zed mother demand
ed on the occasion of a visit fror
Madam Brown; "Job. Job, where's tn,
cap7"
"Whati Beanie on ma head
mother" replied Job, slowly extricat
ing q hand from a pocket and feel
! ing for the article in question; which
he found on his head and left there
to his mothers horror and Toms grea,
delight.
Rugby vas a new world for Tom
He was a sturdy, and combative urchin
able to fend for himself on his owl
heath; yet it was a great boon fol
him that he fell into the hands Of q
boy Of his W age, but q bit ahead
OF him at Rugby. The first sight he
encountered on his arrival was a lord.
ly crowd Of youngsters who looked
quite as If they owned the place. One
of these young heroes ran out from
the rest and accosted Tom. 81 say, you
fellow, Is your name Brown"
"Yes," said Tom, in considerable as
,ton.shment, glad, however, to have
lighted on some n already who
seemed to know him.
"Ah. I thought so; you know my
aunt. Miss East; she lives somewhere
down your way in Berkshire. She
wrote to me that you were coming to-
day, and asked me to give you a lift.
You see," said his friend, as they
strolled up toward the school gates,
"a great deal depends on how a fellow
cuts up at first. If he's got nothing
odd about him, and answers straight.
forward and holds his head up, he gets
on. You e I'm doing the handsome
thing by you. because my father knows
yours; besides, I want to please the
old lady. She gave me half q SOW
this half, and perhapsm double it next
If / keep in her good books"
Thus began a friendship which last
ed through all their school days and
meant much to both of them. Friend
and loyalty and good sportsman
ship are great features in this book, |
which shows an insight into the brain
and heart Of a boy which is just as
in the year of our Lord 1920 as
It was in the days of William ".
Tom and East were together in
games, in mischief, in fights, in
good deeds, O. in deviltry, as they
we're in ingenious syndicating meth
IDS Of working out the mysteries of
he Greek and Latin languages. And
Tears later, when the wise Doctor
Arnold of Rugby decided that Tom
vas headed toward destruction, it was
" means of friendship for a weaker
'oy who needed his protection that he
him. What was the marvel Of
he doctors power over boys? "We
enter into half that we heard;
re hadn't the knowledge of our own
carts or the knowledge Of one an
ther; and little enough of the faith,
ope and love needed TO that end. But
e listened, as all boys in their bet
er moods will listen (aye, and men,
DO, for the matter of that), to q
ian whom they felt to be, with all
heart and soul and strength, striv-
e against whatever was mean and
nmanly and unrighteous in our little
orld. 1t was not the cold, clear
,ice OF n giving advice and warn
6 from serene heights to those who
ere struggling and SHINING below,
the warm, living voice Of one who
fighting for us and by our sides,
I'd calling us to help him and our
v e and n another. And so, .
EARLY and little by little, was brought
to the young boy, for the first !
ne. the meaning Of his life: that it Y
no FOOLS or sluggard's paradise II
to which he had wandered by chance,
It a battle field, ordained from Of RI
/. where there are no spectators but n
youngest must take his side, and u
e stakes are life and death. And he n
10 reused this consciousness in them a.
them at the same time, by n
cry word he spoke, and by his whole q,
lily life, how that battle was to be
light; and stood before them their r,
low-soldier and the captain of their "
ard. The true sort Of captain, too, n,
a boys army, n who had no mis- ,,
ings and gave no uncertain word g
command, and, let who would yield -
make a truce, would fight the fight
ESQ every boy felt) to the last gasp -,
] the last drop of blood" -
md so Tom lived his life from the So
t green days to the last memorable to
hit, when he was "chaired" round 81,
quadrangle by the eleven, shout on
in chorus: "For he's a jolly, good nj
himself as great a boy as all
rest, despite the passage of the no
rs and his dignity of captain It ~
| story Of humanness, with all its
d points and it's frailties, but espe- co
ly Of loyalty and of friendship; of WIS
les, so much like our own in spirit,
yet so different in details; of East ~,
Arthur, of the brutalities Of the
tagging system, the school bully th,
Toms classic fight with him, Of 10
final war Of independence against me
+ uyoo nooon onI co,I;l