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"If you don't, I'll break every bone in your body." The threat left its object quite unmoved. He pointed a crayon at Peter Quick Banta's creation. "What is that? A bool-rush?" "It's a laylock; that's what it is." "And the little bird that goes to light " "That ain't a bird and you know it." Peter Quick Banta breathed hard. "That's a butterfly." "I see. But the lie-lawc, it drop so!"
For when Hank Banta's ducking and his dogged obstinacy in sitting in his wet clothes had brought on a serious fever, Ralph had called together the big boys, and had said: "We must take care of one another, boys. Who will volunteer to take turns sitting up with Henry?" He put his own name down, and all the rest followed. "William Means and myself will sit up to-night," said Ralph.
Such a smell of sulphur as came from that school-house! Betsey had to lean against the fence to giggle. As soon as all were out, Ralph threw the board off the chimney, leaped to the ground, entered the school-house, and opened the windows. The school soon followed him, and all was still. "Would he thrash?" This was the important question in Hank Banta's mind.
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