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The chicotte is a plain strip of hippo hide and the punishment was administered publicly by the capita on the bridge of the steamer and did not appear to be more painful than an ordinary birching at a public school. At 10 p.m. we decide to take the big iron boat of the steamer and go hunting. The natives are exceedingly skilful and know all the likely places for hippo.
'Trenfield is a villain. How dare you, presumptuous boy, seek to excuse him! A good birching, for which you are not too old, would teach you that reverence and respect for a clergyman which your mother has so forgotten. Harry fired up quickly enough at the insulting words. 'How dare you, sir, speak to me in this fashion? My father shall hear of this.
At Eton, where a too-indulgent grandmother had placed him, he ransacked the desks of his school-fellows, and avenged a birching by emptying his master's pockets. Wherefore he lost the hope of a polite education, and instead of proceeding with a clerkly dignity to King's College, in the University of Cambridge, he was ignominiously apprenticed to a breeches-maker.
The Chief was too utterly fed up to do anything; moreover, he saw that a birching would do Gordon no good. He would only boast about it. It was not until a week later that Gordon was called up before the Chief. "Caruthers, I want to know where you got hold of that crib."
He asked why she cried, and on her sobbing out that it was because she was sorry for me, he bade her take off her stays. These being stiff, and worn outside the gown, would have made the punishment of the birch on the shoulders of trifling moment. As it was usual to whip girls at school, the little maid said nothing, but did as she was bid, taking a sharp birching without a cry.
The three young men consumed a good deal of wine, and after dinner strolled about the streets, until Narramore's fatigue and thirst brought them to a pause at a cafe on the Boulevard des Italiens. Birching presently moved apart, to reach a newspaper, and remained out of earshot while Narramore talked with his other friend. "What's going on?" he began. "What are you doing here?
Seriously, I want you to go along with us. Birching is a very good sort of chap, but just a trifle heavy takes things rather solemnly for such hot weather. Is it the expense? Hang it! You and I know each other well enough, and, thanks to my old uncle " "Never mind that, old boy," interposed Hilliard. "How long are you going for?" "I can't very well be away for more than three weeks.
"I want to see a mountain with snow on it. We're bound to travel by night, and another day of this would settle me. Any objection, Birching?" The architect agreed, and time-tables were consulted. Hilliard drove home to pack. When this was finished, he sat down and wrote a letter: "DEAR MISS MADELEY, My friend Narramore is here, and has persuaded me to go to Switzerland with him.
He'll never carry it through; unless, as I said, Miss Birching takes the decisive step." "Is she the kind of girl to do that?" asked Eve, waking to curiosity. "I know nothing about her, except from Narramore's sleepy talk. Rather an arrogant beauty, according to him.
If you'd worked harder at College and done me credit, you'd 'a' been a feller of your college, or a judge in an Indian court, by this time, instead of birching naughty little boys. 'It's a detail, said Mark; 'but I don't interfere in that department. 'Well, you are young to be trusted with a birch. I'm glad they look at things that way.
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