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Hawkesbury was thanked and dismissed, and then, with the assistance of Miss Henniker, Mr Hashford, and Mr Ladislaw, Smith and I were birched, and forbidden the playground for a fortnight, during which period we were required to observe absolute silence. So ended our little adventure out for a puff of free air! Among our fellows we gained little enough sympathy for our misfortunes.
Which homily brings me directly to a brace of the most finished little fiends that ever banged drum or tootled fife in the Band of a British Regiment. They ended their sinful career by open and flagrant mutiny and were shot for it. Their names were Jakin and Lew Piggy Lew and they were bold, bad drummer-boys, both of them frequently birched by the Drum-Major of the Fore and Aft.
Vernon was now slumbering deeply; his soft childish curls fell off his forehead, and his head nestled in the pillow; but there was an expression of uneasiness on his sleeping features, and the long eyelashes were still wet with tears. "Poor child," thought Eric; "dear little Vernon; and he is to be flogged, perhaps birched, to-morrow."
After school, refusing speech to any, I walked home, and ministered to my poor little bruised body as I best could. Now this being a Saturday, and therefore a half-holiday, I ate at two with my father and mother. Presently my father, detecting my uneasy movements, said, "Hast thou been birched to-day, and for what badness?" Upon this my mother said softly, "What is it, my son? Have no fear."
To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years, and take rank, not as a prophet, but as an unteachable brat, well birched, and none the wiser. It is as if a ship captain should sail to India from the Port of London; and having brought a chart of the Thames on deck at his first setting out, should obstinately use no other for the whole voyage.
"Yes, you are lucky," said the first boy enviously. "You will get a little golden wreath, but what will happen to me?" "I will entreat the angels, the archangels, the cherubim and the seraphim for you give me but your full name and address." "My sin is quite a big one, and my name is Mitka Sosipatrov, from Nizhniya Kolotilovka." "Don't be afraid," said the birched boy.
Never again did Doe or I see him, though we heard of his doings. God speed to him, our cocksure Pennybet. Let us always think the best of him. No sooner had the door clicked than Chappy exploded. "That high youth ought to have his trousers taken down and be birched. What are we coming to, when boys like him lecture their elders on how to run the world?"
Chamberlain makes his exposure a sort of comfort and delight to the majority of the House; but still, the sense of his great powers of his commanding position as a debater of his formidableness as a political and Parliamentary enemy made the House almost unwilling to realize that he could be taken up and reprimanded, and birched by anybody in the House with the completeness with which Mr.
I am, I am and I hate myself!" and here, forthwith, she stamped her foot at herself. "No, no, you're not I say no! You didn't mean to break my heart. You've come back to me, thank God, and and Oh, egad, Cleone, I swear I say I swear by Gog and Magog, I'm snuffling like a birched schoolboy; but then I couldn't bear to lose my dear maid."
To be crossed at home, to be birched at school, to work all May-day in the tannery vats, and to be laughed at it was too much. "Ye think that I will na? Well, I'll show ye! 'Tis only eight miles to Warwick, and hardly more than that beyond no walk at all; and Diccon Haggard, my mother's cousin, lives in Coventry. So out upon your musty Latin English is good enough for me this day!
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