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Title: A great emergency
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Ewing, Juliana Horatia Gatty, 1841-1885 Barry, Etheldred B. (Etheldred Breeze), b. 1870, ill
Subjects: Runaway children Sailors Great Britain -- History 19th century Fiction
Publisher: Boston : L.C. Page
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
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pieces and cut out a new one byit, and made it all herself, with a button and astiff peak and everything ; and it really did per-fectly, and looked very well, in the sunshine,over Ruperts brown face and glossy blackhair. There always was sunshine when we playedcricket. The hotter it was, the better we likedit. We had a bottle of lemon-kali powder onthe ground, and I used to have to make nzzing-cup in a tin mug for the other boys. I got thewater from the canal. Lemon-kali is delicious on a very hot day -so refreshing! But I sometimes fancied I felta little sick aftcnvards, if I had had a greatdeal. And Bustard (who was always calledBustard-Plaster, because he was the doctorsson) said it was the dragons out of the canal A GREAT EMERGENCY. 37 water lashing their tails inside us. He hadseen them under his fathers microscope. The field where we played was on the banksof the canal, the opposite side to the town. Ibelieve it was school property. At any ratewe had the right of playing there.
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We had to go nearly a quarter of a mile outof the way before there was a bridge, and itwas very vexatious to toil a quarter of a miledown on one side and a quarter of a mile up onthe other to get at a meadow which lay directlyopposite to the school. Weston wrote a letterabout it to the weekly paper, asking the townto build us a bridge. He wrote splendid let-ters, and this was one of his very best. He 38 A GREAT EMERGENCY. said that if the town council laughed at thenotion of building a bridge for boys, they mustremember that the boys of to-day were themen of to-morrow (which we all thought agrand sentence, though MacDonald, a veryaccurate-minded fellow, said it would reallybe some years before most of us were grownup). Then Weston called us the Rising Gen-eration, and showed that, in all probability, thePrime Minister, Lord Chancellor, and Primateof the years to come, now played all uncon-scious of their future fame in the classic fieldsthat lay beyond the water, and promised thatin t

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