Chapter 1. A Fishing Excursion
_ CHAPTER I. A FISHING EXCURSION
"Now, Hargate, what a fellow you are! I‘ve been looking for you everywhere. Don‘t you know it‘s the House against the Town boys. It‘s lucky that the Town have got the first innings； they began a quarter of an hour ago."
"How tiresome!" Frank Hargate said. "I was watching a most interesting thing here. Don‘t you see this little chaffinch nest in the bush, with a newly hatched brood. There was a small black snake threatening the nest, and the mother was defending it with quivering wings and open beak. I never saw a prettier thing. I sat quite still and neither of them seemed to notice me. Of course I should have interfered if I had seen the snake getting the best of it. When you came running up like a cart horse, the snake glided away in the grass, and the bird flew off. Oh, dear! I am sorry. I had forgotten all about the match."
"I never saw such a fellow as you are, Hargate. Here‘s the opening match of the seas

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