Deering of Deal; Or, The Spirit of the School
Latta Griswold
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DEERING OF DEAL
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THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
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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
