Bellona Times
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 1 Aug
Bellona Times’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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he was a big awkward boy with a face full of freckles and a head full of very red hair he was perhaps fourteen years of age that is four or five years older than any other boy in the class this seniority was due to the fact that he had spent twice the required amount of time in several of the preceding classes
i had not been at school many hours before i felt that redhead as i involuntarily called him and i were to be friends i do not doubt that this feeling was strengthened by the fact that i had been quick enough to see that a big strong boy was a friend to be desired at a public school and perhaps in spite of his dullness redhead had been able to discern that i could be of service to him
At any rate, there was simultaneous mutual attraction.
The teacher had strung the class promiscuously round the walls of the room for a sort of trial heat for places of rank.
When the line was straightened out, I found that by skillful maneuvering I had placed myself third, and had piloted Redhead to the place next to me.
the teacher began by giving us to spell the words corresponding to our order in the line spell first spell second spell third i rattled off t h i r d third in a way which said why don't you give us something hard as the words went down the line i could see how lucky i had been to get a good place together with an easy word
As young as I was, I felt impressed with the unfairness of the whole proceeding when I saw the tailenders going down before twelfth and twentieth, and I felt sorry for those who had to spell such words in order to hold a low position.
Spell fourth.
redhead with his hands clutched tightly behind his back began bravely f o r t h like a flash a score of hands went up and the teacher began saying no snapping of fingers no snapping of fingers
This was the first word missed, and it seemed to me that some of the scholars were about to lose their senses.
Some were dancing up and down on one foot with a hand above their heads, the fingers working furiously, and joy beaming all over their faces.
Others stood still, their hands raised not so high, their fingers working less rapidly, and their faces expressing not quite so much happiness.
There were still others who did not move nor raise their hands, but stood with great wrinkles on their foreheads, looking very thoughtful.
The whole thing was new to me, and I did not raise my hand, but slightly whispered the letter U to Redhead several times.
Second chance, said the teacher.
The hands went down, and the class became quiet.
Redhead, his face now red, after looking beseechingly at the ceiling, then pitiably at the floor, began very haltingly, F...
U. Immediately, an impulse to raise hands went through the class, but the teacher checked it, and poor Redhead, though he knew that each letter he added only took him farther out of the way, went doggedly on and finished.
R. T. H.
The hand-raising was now repeated with more hubbub and excitement than at first.
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