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“ All day long there was the musical ring of the hammer on the anvil, as sturdy Scouts, with turned-up sleeves and flushed faces, forged horseshoes and various other useful things, heedless of the sparks that flew out from the red-hot metal. ”

“ Harry Cleveland, the well-known referee, said about the boxing: "The material is there, also the keenness and the thorough spirit of sportsmanship, which prevails among the lads must influence in the best possible way amateur boxing. Intense rivalry is associated with the desire to win honourably, and, up to now. ”

“ A collier lad, one would imagine, has not much leisure or opportunity to couple a thorough course of botany with his ordinary work, yet this lad's specimens, each marked with its habitat, show that he has found time to wander round the hedgerows, woods, waste ground, old gardens, marshes, shady banks, and hay-fields in search of them. ”