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The other boys had withdrawn themselves from him, so as not to share the blame if anything came of it; the boy was a farmer's son the only one in the company and they had visions of the magistrate at the back of the affair, and perhaps a caning at the town-hall.
And let me give you all fair warning," he raised his voice and looked round again, regarding poor Jeanie with marked austerity, "that if any one of you is not word-perfect in his or her task by the day of my return boy or girl I care not, the offence is the same he or she will receive a sound caning and the task will be returned."
He was challenged by Brooks, but refused to fight on the ground that duelling was part of the barbarism which Brooks had shown in caning Sumner.
He dropped one hand at length and began to dig his brown fingers into the powdery sand with irritable energy; but a minute or more passed before very grumpily he spoke. "I've had a row with my grandfather. We both of us behaved like wild beasts. In the end, he thought he was going to give me a caning, and that was more than I could stand. I smashed his ruler for him and bolted.
Bursts of ill temper, in the form of invective, hair-pulling, ear-pulling, pinching, caning, "nape-cracking," or "chin-smashing," were part of the routine, and very often I was the scapegoat for the sins of other boys.
'You mustn't mustn't mustn't interrupt the meeting, So far he tried to assert himself, then, with a glance at the contemptuous face of the woman before him, he relapsed into the tone of a schoolboy who begs off the last strokes of a caning. 'Is this nice conduct? Is it ladylike to come here and attack us like this? Miss Goold, I'm ashamed of you.
I remember having the intense pleasure of playing him a little trick just after he had been caning a lad who was a very good friend of mine. It happened in this way but first I must describe the topography of the place. Mr. At the other end of the garden was a wash-house with the schoolroom over it, and in the wash-house there was a large copper for boiling linen.
"Sir," cried the Professor, sternly, "remind me to give you a severe caning to-night." "Yes, sir." "Well, booby, what have you got to say to it?" "Wittles!" shouted the Captain. "Right," cried the Professor, "only it would have been better expressed had you said Luncheon. Go up, sir; put yourself at the head of the class, and lead it to a scene of glorious festivity."
One time he came in so very late that the teacher quite lost his patience. Seizing a rod he told Robert to hold out his hand, and gave him a caning. "There!" he exclaimed, "I hope that will make you do something." But the boy folded his arms and answered very quietly, "I came to school to have something beaten into my brains and not into my knuckles."
Caning, in London: The most evident hope from altogether starving is oysters, and for the easier getting of them I have agreed for a canoe which will cost me 6 livres sterling. Emigrants had been advised not to leave for Virginia without some fishing equipment.
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