All together, none before and none after the other, every male in the crowd bellowed forth the accumulated excitement of the day:
"OUT!"
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Not for half an hour that evening did the cheering cease or the mass of boys begin to disperse. Even then there were little outbreaks of fresh cheering coming from separate groups. A line of day-boys, who had linked arms as, homeward bound, they left the field, droned merrily:
"Now the day is over,
Night is drawing nigh,
Shadows of the evening
Steal across the sky."
And among the dissolving cheers from the distance could occasionally be heard the refrain of "Hoo-Ray, hoo-Ray, hoo-blooming-Ray!"
CHAPTER XII
CASTLES AND BRICK-DUST
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