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Rh of them sweep down the ice with that fine vigorous singing of their skates, and then sharply wheel on a flank movement as some daring  and deft opponent twitched aside the puck they  were pursuing. It was all so brisk and spirited and changing, that it made the steady pull on  the chest-weights and rowing-machines and the  jog-trot on the empty roads seem monotonous.

The sun setting beyond the pines which fringed the shore burnished the ice with warm  bronze and golden tints; on two afternoons  Edward thought he had never seen anything  more gorgeous than that glow with all those  swift and agile figures flashing about in it,  sparkling with their own bright colors, their  red jerseys and white sweaters and caps of  different hues. He was sure then that to play hockey as the School team played it, as Charles  played it, must give one the greatest joy, the  most triumphant feeling in life; he was more  than ever sure that it must be wonderful to  be Charles!

On the morning of Washington’s Birthday, Edward was tobogganing with Lawrence and