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And she boxed their ears, and thumped them over the head with rulers, and pandied their hands with canes, and told them that they told stories, and were this and that bad sort of people; and the more they were very indignant, and stood upon their honour, and declared they told the truth, the more she declared they were not, and that they were only telling lies; and at last she birched them all round soundly with her great birch-rod and set them each an imposition of three hundred thousand lines of Hebrew to learn by heart before she came back next Friday.
"In excelsis gloria," said Davenport. "And it was a rotten crib, too," said Gordon. By next morning the story was all round the school. "You will be birched for certain," was Tester's cheerful comment, "and serve you right for getting caught." "I sha'n't be such a fool again," growled Caruthers. And certainly he profited by his experience.
The tale of our exports for the last five years conveys at once its moral and its warning. Statistics were then cited. As when the gloomy pedagogue has concluded his exhortation, statistics birched the land. They were started at our dinner-tables, and scourged the social converse.
And though he never birched a boy in his life, and was, I am convinced, morally incapable of such a scuffle, he retained the block and birch in the school through all his term of office, and spoke at the Headmasters' Conference in temperate approval of corporal chastisement, comparing it, dear soul! to the power of the sword....
"One might as well admonish thistledown, and I can't well put you in cells or under stoppages. You must be birched again." "Beg y' pardon, Sir. Can't we say nothin' in our own defence, Sir?" shrilled Jakin. "Hey! What? Are you going to argue with me?" said the Colonel. "No, Sir," said Lew.
They could find so many subjects of interchange what the children were doing at Master Dove's school, and the plays they had. The snowballing, although as yet there had been only one snow, had been almost a battle between two parties of boys. "But Master Dove said no one should dip the balls in water and then let them freeze, or he would get birched soundly.
Mrs Potts took the opportunity of escaping by the door, beckoning to her husband as soon as she was outside. "And I will go and decant the wine. Quite in the family way, Mr Rainscourt no ceremony. You'll excuse me," continued the curate, as he obeyed the summons of his wife, like a school-boy ordered up to be birched. "Well, my dear," interrogated Mr Potts, humbly, as soon as the door was closed.
The voice was Hunston's, and that sufficed for young Jack to show signs of opposition. Vain obstacle. "We are quite comfortable where we are," said young Jack. "Insolent brat!" said Hunston contemptuously. "You shall be birched well for that." The colour mounted to the boy's face in spite of himself.
For instance, probably the best general history of Europe is still Guizot's book, and its French is about the easiest ever written. But we would go further. We remember once a boy being birched for circulating a copy of La Vie Parisienne. Does not this suggest that every house should take a French daily newspaper, and also an illustrated weekly, other than that above mentioned?
After boarding a train and traveling for twenty-four hours toward the South and sunshine, he begins to lose a little the feeling that he is playing "hookey" and is liable to be dragged home and birched. But he does wonder a little whether he won't have hard work in finding somebody to play with him.
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