Deering of Deal; Or, The Spirit of the School

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  DEERING OF DEAL

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  THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

  NEW YORK · BOSTON · CHICAGO DALLAS · SAN FRANCISCO

  MACMILLAN & CO., LIMITED

  LONDON · BOMBAY · CALCUTTA MELBOURNE

  THE MACMILLAN CO. OF CANADA, LTD.

  TORONTO

  “DON’T HAVE A FIT, DEERING, IT’S ONLY MACLAREN”]

  DEERING OF DEAL

  OR

  THE SPIRIT OF THE SCHOOL

  BY

  LATTA GRISWOLD

  “_Toujours fidèle et sans souci_”

  New York THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1914

  _All rights reserved_

  COPYRIGHT, 1912 BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

  Set up and electrotyped. Published October, 1912. Reprinted July, 1913, July, 1914.

  PRESS OF T. MOREY & SON GREENFIELD, MASS., U. S. A.

  To

  JOHN GLENOE WRIGHT LEE HALL JONES ROBERT GROSVENOR LUCIUS SCOTT LANDRETH, JR. HARRY L. FENNER SAMUEL M. SHOEMAKER, JR.

  in warm friendship and in memory of many happy days at school

  FOREWORD

  The Author desires to state that none of the characters in this story,either boys or masters, are portraits. The incidents are entirelyfictitious, and Deal School, though it shares certain topographicalfeatures with the school with which the Author is connected, existsonly in his imagination.

  ST. GEORGE’S SCHOOL, NEWPORT: _18 April, 1912_.

  MAP OF DEAL SCHOOL]

  CONTENTS

  CHAPTER PAGE

  I. DEAL SCHOOL 1

  II. A HAZING BEE 10

  III. “PAX” 24

  IV. MICHAELMAS TERM 35

  V. THE BOXFORD GAME 47

  VI. AFTERMATH 61

  VII. LOVEL’S WOODS 71

  VIII. A MIDNIGHT LARK 87

  IX. AN ENDING 107

  X. FINCH 120

  XI. THE DISCOMFITURE OF DUCKY THORNTON 130

  XII. A GATING AND A GAME 146

  XIII. THE NIGHT OF THE BONFIRE 159

  XIV. THE SPECTACLE 169

  XV. TONY PLAYS THE PART OF A GUARDIAN ANGEL 188

  XVI. A RIFT IN FRIENDSHIP 204

  XVII. LEAVE-TAKING 216

  XVIII. THE HEAD PREFECTSHIP 232

  XIX. THE RESULT OF THE PROTEST 250

  XX. FINCH’S HOUR 267

  XXI. SELF-SACRIFICE 284

  XXII. THE CHAPEL 294

  XXIII. THE LAST TERM 306