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Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Rough-Hewn

Paperback (Forgotten Books Aug. 5, 2012)
Strindberg had just published A Fool s Confession, DA nnunzio was employing all the multicolored glory of his style to prove The Triumph of Death ;H ardy was somberly mixing on his palette the twilight grays and blacks and mourning purples of Jude the Obscure ;N ordau, gnashing his teeth, was bellowing Decadent at his contemporaries who smirked a complacent acceptance of the epithet .. .and, all unconscious of the futility and sordidness of the world, Neale Crittenden swaggered along Central A venue, brandishing his shinny stick. It was a new yellow shinny stick, broad and heavy and almost as long as the boy who carried it. Ever since he had seen it in the window of Schwartz s Bazar, his soul had yearned for it. For days he had hoarded his pennies, foregoing icecream sodas, shutting his ears to the seductive ding-dong of the waffle-man scart, and this very afternoon the immense sum of twenty-five cents had been completed and now he owned a genuine boughten stick, varnished and shiny. What couldnt he do with such a club! He beat it on the side-walk till the flag-stones rang; he swung it around his head. What stupendous long-distance goals he was going to make! How he would dribble the ball through the enemy! Spring had turned the vacant lots into sticky red mud, but Central A venue was hard if somewhat undulating macadam. It had stone curbs too, that bounced the ball back as if specially designed for side-boundaries by a philanthropic Board of Supervisors. Somewhere along it he was sure to find a game in progress. Yes, there they were in front of Number Two School. Neale broke into a run and coming up breathless plunged into the scrimmage. Shinny as played on Union Hill in the nineties had none of the refinements of its dignified cousin, field-hockey.
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