Capitolo 42
being without a penny. A week before he would have thought him impossible
what such niggardly sum would have made him feel himself/herself/themselves comfortable, but he had
passed then since then through a great quantity.
Around the middle one of the afternoon he came to a field in that anything
it seemed same following. Of the forty or fifty young persons, boys and
girls, were walking on the grass, and it seemed you/they were preparing for some
interesting event.
Carl stopped to remain and to look on.
"What is you/he/she following here?" he asked of a boy that is sat on the enclosure.
"It is a reunion of the sporting association", it said the boy.
"What are you/they doing?"
"They tries for prizes in to jump, while building at times, draught with the arc and so on."
This interested Carl that excelled in all the virile exercises.
"Do I suppose that I can be and I can look on?" he said, inquiringly.
"Because, clearly. You jump on the enclosure and me I will go round with You."
It seemed pleasant to Carl for once more to associate with boys of his really
age. Thrown to the sudden one on his/her his/her own resources, he had almost forgotten
what he was a boy. Affronts to face with a cold and world of unsympathizing him,
seemed at least to him twenty-five.
"Those that desire to compete for the prize of draught with the arc will come in before,"
Announced Robert Gardiner, a youth of nineteen that, as Carl
learned, it was the president of the association. "You all it understands the
conditions. The tax of entrance to competing it is ten cents. The prize to the
the most greater part of succeeded archer is a dollar."
Many boys came in before and paid the entrance fee.
"Would it appreciate to compete?" Asked Edward Downie, the boy which
knowledge that Carl had done.
"I am an outsider", said Carl. "I don't belong to the association."
"I will talk to the president, if he likes."
"I don't want to thrust in me."
"An intrusion won't be considered. You pay the entrance fee and he/she takes
Your opportunities."