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 who feel any compunctions of conscience and wish to make restitution, or any who would like to know whom among you all I would recommend as an example most worthy of imitation, I will point them to Walter Claremont."

All eyes were fixed on Walter, the unconscious hero, whose look of puzzled surprise added to the interest of the occasion; and all gathered around him as one boisterous cheer proclaimed the end of school regulations. When they gained the liberty of the open air, they waved their caps in great exultation that they too had a favorite, which circumstance served them as the political occasion to imitate their seniors—and "hurrah for Walter," from the boy who spilt the ink, ended in three times three.

"And terror to sly winks!" shouted the boy who pushed his elbow. But Sly Winks was silently riddling the philosophy of the proverb, "Behold what a great fire a little spark kindleth," to reap its fruits in due season.