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Bmoke pooh-poohed it, and sought the sky by vents more congenial to the habits of the nation. The boys were mostly farmers sons, in long freize coats, breeches loose at the knee, clouted shoes tied with strips of raw neat-skin, and slovenly caubeens; but there was a sprinkling of broad-cloth, plain three-cornered hats, and shoebuckles; there were also five or six barefooted urchins, not the worst ... More

Bmoke pooh-poohed it, and sought the sky by vents more congenial to the habits of the nation. The boys were mostly farmers sons, in long freize coats, breeches loose at the knee, clouted shoes tied with strips of raw neat-skin, and slovenly caubeens; but there was a sprinkling of broad-cloth, plain three-cornered hats, and shoebuckles; there were also five or six barefooted urchins, not the worst scholars there; for this strange anomalous people, with many traits of the pure savage, had been leaders in medis Bval literature, had founded the University of Paris, and had still a noble reverence for learning; the humblest would struggle to pay a sharp boys schooling, and so qualify him for business, perhaps for the priesthood itself, pinnacle of an I rish peasants ambition. A loof from this motley line stood a single, timid figure; a boy with delicate skin, and exquisite golden hair; his face, pale and anxious. He wore a straight-cut coat, scarlet once, but now a rusty red, no hat, shoes with steel buckles and holes. This decayed little gentleman peered anxiously round a comer of the building, and, as soon as ever the school broke up with horrid yells, ran and hid himself.
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