d-e-r-s

Updated: June 9, 2025

Inducted into the loathsome school-room on the following morning by Squeers himself, Nicholas, first of all, we were informed, witnessed the manner in which that arrant rogue presided over "the first class in English spelling and philosophy," practically illustrating his mode of tuition by setting the scholars to clean the w-i-n win, d-e-r-s ders, winders to weed the garden to rub down the horse, or get rubbed down themselves if they didn't do it well.

Charles Kent - Charles Dickens as a Reader