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I've as good a right there as you have. Tom Mercer and you ain't going to have it all to yourselves for your old slugs and snails and dead cats." "You mind Tom Mercer doesn't catch you," I said. "You don't want him to lick you again, I know." "Yah!" he shouted, and he ran off just as my companion came down. "Who was that?" he said. "Fatty Dicksee.
"You don't want to fight. It's like being a soldier a British soldier, sir. He don't want to fight, and he will not if he can help it. He always hangs back because he knows that he can fight. But when he does well, I'm sorry for the other side." "Then you think I could lick Eely if he knocked me about, or big Dicksee?" "No, I don't think anything about it, my boy. You wait.
"Had enough, Doctor?" cried Burr major contemptuously, and as I supported Mercer he uttered a low sob of misery. "Yes, he's done. Now, Dicksee, I'll second you. Off with your togs and polish him off till his face shines. Now then, look sharp, Senna, you've got to back your chap." I heard Mercer grind his teeth, and I felt giddy with excitement as he whispered to me,
I'll let you come and help me here sometimes, and if old Burr major or Dicksee interferes, you'll have to help me, for I wouldn't have my things spoiled for ever so much." "Oh, I'll help you," I said, and I waited with some curiosity while he opened the lock, and, after hanging it on a nail, slowly raised the lid, and I looked in to see a strange assortment of odds and ends.
I heard him tell Dicksee he should make his father send him a horse, and Dicksee said he ought to, and I laughed." "Did he hear you?" "Yes, and gave me such a clip on the head with a cricket stump. Feel here." I placed my hand where he suggested, and there was a good-sized lump. "What a shame!" I cried indignantly. "Didn't you hit him again?" "No; I only put it down.
Who was in the wrong?" "Please, sir, I'd rather not give an opinion." "Please, sir, I know!" cried Dicksee. "Thank you. I would rather take some other boy's opinion," cried the Doctor sarcastically. "Your eyes don't look as if you can see clearly.
"Why, you just push the key in that little hole, and turn it a few times so. Oh, I forgot I did wind it up before." "Why, you wound it up six times," said Dicksee, with a sneer. "Well, it's my own watch, isn't it, stupid? I can wind it up a hundred times if I like," cried Burr major contemptuously. "I say, how much did it cost?" said Hodson. "How should I know?
On that particular morning, I was, what fat Dicksee called, "catching it," and I was listening gloomily to my teacher's attempts at being witty at my expense. "How a boy can be so stupid," he said, "is more than I can grasp. It is perfect child's play, and yet you have gone on getting the problem into a hopeless tangle a ridiculous tangle. You have made a surd perfectly absurd, and "
This seemed the unkindest cut of all, and as soon as the boys had gone racing down into the yard, where Dicksee gave vent to a loud "Cock-a-doodle-doo," I slowly rose to my feet and faced Mercer, who was gazing straight before him. "I say," I panted, for I was breathless still, "did I win?" "You? No," he cried savagely. "You can't fight any more than I can, and the brutes have beaten us both.
I shan't let out about Burr major being such a coward, and Burr here won't tell about fat-headed Dicksee, so now you can go." "And you'd better keep to it," said the boy, looking at me fiercely; but I did not feel afraid, for Mercer's project about the gloves had sent a glow through me, and, as he said, our time would come.
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