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98 Keating and a number of other Fourth Formers on Roup’s Hill, which was half a mile from the School, on the road to town.

It was a clear, cold morning; there was a hard crust on the snow all the way down the  long slope to the alder-fringed creek; there  were gleaming thank-you-ma’ams over which  the toboggans leaped, and frozen pools over  which they skimmed; the holiday spirit was  in all the boys; they shouted as they flew  down the hill, and from the bottom they raced  eagerly up again. Off in the distance they could see the pond where other fellows were  skating, and beyond that the rink, empty of  skaters, shining with its fresh ice and waiting  for the contest of the afternoon.

Charles had written to Edward that the St. John’s hockey team were coming over by the nine o’clock train to have luncheon with the  St. Timothy’s team before the game; so, after  half-past eleven, when the nine o’clock train  was due to arrive, Edward abandoned his toboggan and sat on the stone wall, watching  alternately the coasters and the road.