The childred assembled first, of course.
School was recently over for the summer,and the felling of liberty sat uneasily on most of them; they tened to gather togeter quietly for a while before they broke into boisterou play,and their talk was still of the classroom and the teacher,of books and reqrimands.
Bobby Martin had already stuffed his pockets full of stone,and the other boys soon followed his example, selecting the smoothest and roundest stone; Bobby and Harry Jones and Dicky Delacroix-the villagers pronounced this name "Dellacroy" - eventually made a great pile of stones in one corner of the square and guarded it against the raids of the other boys.