44 THE CHERRY-STONES.

For a few moments he was baffled. “TI
will not give it up, though,” said he to
himself, as he measured the height of
the wall with his eye; “I will: not give
it up. The greater the difficulty, the
greater the honour; I will manage it
somehow, I am resolved.” As he pon-
dered thus, his eye suddenly rested on a
bench which had been brought out of
the marching-room on the afternoon of
the match for the use of the boys dur-
ing the game. “The very thing!” he
exclaimed; ‘how stupid of us not to
think of this bench yesterday: Ay,” he
pursued, as he laid it with its back rest-
ing against the buttress, and its legs pro-
jecting outwards from the wall, ‘This
will make a famous ladder.” Scrambling,
first on to the lower, and then the upper
legs, he speedily contrived to reach the