He's older than me, but I can lick him." "And how old is Egbert ?" asks the smiling senior.
"Egbert's ten, and I'm nine, and Ethel's seven," replies the little chubby-faced hero, digging his hands deep into his trousers' pockets, and jingling all the sovereigns there.

I advised him to let me be his banker; and, keeping one out of his many gold pieces, he handed over the others, on which he drew with great liberality till his whole stock was expended.

The school hours of the upper and under boys were different at that time; the little fellows coming out of their hall half an hour before the Fifth and Sixth Forms; and many a time I used to find my little blue jacket in waiting, with his honest square face, and white hair, and bright blue eyes, and I knew that he was come to draw on his bank.

Ere long one of the pretty blue eyes was shut up, and a fine black one substituted in its place.

He had been engaged, it appeared, in a pugilistic encounter with a giant of his own Form, whom he had worsted in the combat.