Here, with guards set, to give notice of the approach of the children's joy-destroying Siva--otherwise the policeman--they played ball.

Here "cat" and "one old cat" render bearable many a wilting hour for the little urchins.

Here "Sally in our Alley" and "Skip-rope" made the little girls forget that the temperature was far above blood-heat.

Here of an evening, Peter smoked and watched them.
At first he was an object of suspicion, and the sport visibly ceased when he put in an appearance.

But he simply sat on one of the benches and puffed his pipe, and after a few evenings they lost all fear of him, and went on as if he were not there.