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It was Kitty Schuyler and Jack Copley who insisted that I should rhyme Henley and Streatley and Wargrave before I should be suffered to eat luncheon, and they who made me a crown of laurel and hung a pasteboard medal about my blushing neck when I succeeded better than usual with Datchett!
"Said a rat to a hen once, at Datchett, 'Throw an egg to me, dear, and I'll catch it! 'I thank you, good sir, But I greatly prefer To sit on mine HERE till I hatch it." "Few hairs had the Vicar of Medmenham, Few hairs, and he still was a-sheddin' 'em, But had none remained, He would not have complained, Because there was FAR too much red in 'em!"
An excellent idea. 'Er Datchett, said Mr Blatherwick next day, after breakfast. 'Yes? said James. A feeling of content was over him this morning. The sun had broken through the clouds.
"Say th' alphabet, childern!" cried Dame Datchett; and as the class shouted the names of the letters after her, she made a show of pointing to each with a long "sallywithy" wand cut from one of the willows in the water-meadows below.
It became a case of 'Frederick Knott presents James Datchett in "The Colonies", and there seemed every prospect that the production would be an early one; for if there was one section of the public which Mr Knott disliked more than another, it was Young Men Who Ought To Be Out Earning Their Livings Instead Of Idling At Home.
Datchett was deaf. Also, she not unnaturally considered that, in looking after "the young varments" in school-hours, she fully earned their weekly pence, and was by no means bound to disturb herself because they squabbled in the street. Meanwhile Jan gradually got the upper hand of his lubberly and far from courageous opponent, whose smock he had nearly torn off his back.
The section of it which still worked in the present was just large enough to enable him to understand that he felt kindly, and even almost grateful, to Violet. Unfortunately it was too small to make him see how wrong it was to kiss her in a vague, fatherly way across the coffee tray just as James Datchett walked into the room. James paused. Mr Blatherwick coughed.
As to learning, Dame Datchett had little enough herself, and was quite unable to impart even that, except to a very industrious and intelligent pupil. Her school appurtenances were few and simple. From one of them arose Jan's first scrape at school.
"I knows some of 'em," said Abel, "and I asked Dame Datchett about the others, but she do be so cross; and I thinks some of 'em bothered she too. There's mocking. I knows that. 'What's a modern, Dame? says I. 'A muddle-headed fellow the likes of you, says she. 'What's a mohawk, Dame? says I. 'It's what you'll come to before long, ye young hang-gallus, says she.
'Er Datchett, said Mr Blatherwick. 'Yes, said James. 'I er feel that perhaps James waited attentively. 'Have you sugar? 'Plenty, thanks, said James. 'I shall be sorry if it rains, said Mr Blatherwick. Conversation languished. James laid his cup down. 'I have some writing to do, he said. 'I think I'll be going upstairs now. 'Er just so, said Mr Blatherwick, with relief. 'Just so.
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