Quotes Ambush



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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.