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In summer all right-minded boys built huts in the furze-hill behind the College—little lairs whittled out of the heart of the prickly bushes, full of stumps, odd root-ends, and spikes, but, since they were strictly forbidden, palaces of delight |
This is the opening passage of In Ambush. The first tale in Stalky& Co. It has all the key ingrewdients of the saga. a close alliance between Beetle , Stalky, and Turkey, defeat of adbersaries by strategic cunning, and eventual retribution by the all-seeing Head.
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