Chased the little girls around the yard with it

She would not have invited Harold Jones to sit and sing with her
during the opening hour

Harold Jones

To study his tastes

... The comradeship ... was beautiful to see

The red-headed Pratt girl

He could only snap chalk in a preoccupied way and listen to his
Heart's Desire

Piggy was piling up the primary urchins in wiggling, squealing piles

He watched the teacher's finger crook a signal for the note to be
brought forward

... fought boys who were three classes above him ... whipped groups of
boys of assorted sizes

Over his mother's shoulders Piggy saw the hired girl giggle

Her son ate rapidly in silence

His cleanliness pleased his mother and she boasted of it to the
mothers of other boys