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The latter was lying with a bandaged eye in the cold dormitory , and when his father sought him , he heard that Ulrich had wounded him . It would not have needed Xaver 's bitter complaints , to rouse his father to furious rage against the boy who had committed this violence , and he was by no means satisfied , when he learned that the culprit had been excluded for three weeks from the others ' sports , and placed on a very frugal diet . He went furiously to the abbot . The day before -LRB- Saturday -RRB- , Ulrich had gone at noon , without the young count , who was in confinement for some offence , to the snow-covered play-ground , where he was attacked by Xaver and a dozen of his comrades , pushed into a snow-bank , and almost suffocated . The conspirators had stuffed icicles and snow under his clothes next his skin , taken off his shoes and filled them with snow , and meantime Xaver jumped upon his back , pressing his face into the snow till Ulrich lost his breath , and believed his last hour had come . Exerting the last remnant of his strength , he had succeeded in throwing off and seizing his tormentor . While the others fled , he wreaked his rage on the magistrate 's son to his heart 's content , first with his fists , and then with the heavy shoe that lay beside him .