I thank you for it with all my heart.

God bless you, sir.

Now, boys, you give three cheers with me for your schoolmate, for you've got a right to be proud of him." Three such thundering cheers as those which arose had never been heard within the limits of Dr.Parker's school from the day of its foundation.
Seeing that farther work could not be expected from them after this excitement, Dr.Parker gave the boys a holiday for the rest of the day, and they poured out from the schoolroom, shouting and delighted, while Frank was taken off to the parlor to be thanked by Mrs.Gregson.
The farmer closed his visit by inviting Frank, with as many of his schoolfellows as he liked--the whole school if they would come, the more the better--to come over to tea on the following Saturday afternoon, and he promised them as much strawberries and cream as they could eat.

The invitation was largely accepted, and the boys all agreed that a jollier meal they never sat down to than that which was spread on tables in the farmer's garden.

The meal was called tea, but it might have been a dinner, for the tables were laden with huge pies, cold chicken and duck, hams, and piles of cakes and tarts of all sorts.