hedge-school
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Cricket is the national game among the school-boys of the Punjab, from the naked hedge-school children, who use an old kerosine-tin for wicket, to the B.A.'s of the University, who compete for the Championship belt.
From The Kipling Reader Selections from the Books of Rudyard Kipling by Kipling, Rudyard
"You talk with contempt of a hedge-school," replied the other master.
From The Hedge School; The Midnight Mass; The Donagh Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three by Carleton, William
Cricket is the national game among the schoolboys of the Punjab, from the naked hedge-school children, who use an old kerosene-tin for wicket, to the B.A.'s of the University, who compete for the Championship belt.
From Life's Handicap by Kipling, Rudyard
A hedge-school!" replied Mat, highly offended; "my seminary a hedge-school!
From The Hedge School; The Midnight Mass; The Donagh Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three by Carleton, William
Even the "hedge-school" could not be set on foot.
From Irish Race in the Past and the Present by Thebaud, Augustus J.
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