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"There's nothing in the box there's nothing there!" cried Mercer, struggling vainly, but only to be dragged down on the floor. "Here, two of you, come and sit on him," said Burr major. "Hold that other beggar tight, Dicksee. Keep quiet, will you, or I will chuck you down the stairs."
He was not there, and, thinking he might have gone up to our room, I went into the house, and up to the dormitories; but my journey was vain, and I went down again, and once more sought the field, to look all over at the little parties playing cricket, dotted here and there, but no Mercer. To my great surprise, though, I saw Dicksee talking earnestly to Burr major.
Cheeking me because you know I can't stop now. But all right, I shan't forget it. If I do, Dicksee, you remind me after lessons that I've got to warm Jollop and this groom boy. The Doctor's been spoiling them both lately, and they want taking down." "All in, all in, to begin!" was shouted from the doors. "Oh yes, we're coming soon," said Burr major, throwing up his head.
The Doctor coughed loudly, and our action seemed to have given the gentlemen present colds. Then the Doctor signed to his wife, whispered to her, and she left the room with Cook and Polly Hopley. Next he signed to Mr Rebble and Mr Hasnip, who both came and shook hands with me, bowed to the General and my uncle, and they too left the room, with Burr major and Dicksee.
By him was a boy with a book, reading in a highly-pitched voice which did not seem to fit him, being, like his clothes, too small for such a big fellow, with his broad face and forehead all wrinkled up into puckers with the exertion of reading. "Tchish! tchish! Silence!" said Mr Rebble, giving three stamps on the floor. "Now go on, Dicksee." "I say, do listen," said the boy by my side.
I flew at Dicksee, and struck him full in the breast, sending him in his surprise down in a sitting position, just as Mercer struck our tyrant a sounding smack on the cheek. Burr major staggered back and held his hand to his face. "Oh, that's it, is it?" he said with a snarl. "All right, boys, Senna Tea wants me to boil him up again."
There was a pause, then Dicksee spoke with a malicious grin upon his fat face. "Please, sir, I did. It was Burr major." "Dear me! Indeed? Mr Burr, have the goodness to stand up and explain this extraordinary conduct." Oh, poor old Eely!
"And if you did, you'd go right back to the school and tell young Magglin, and he'd be setting night lines by the score all over the pond." "No; honour! We'll never say a word to him!" we cried. "Then you'll tell all your schoolmates, and that big long hop-pole chap, what's his name?" "Burr major," said Mercer eagerly. "And that big fat-faced boy?" "Dicksee?"
I know old Squirmy sent you to ask because there, look at him he's all in a fiddle for fear the Doctor should punish him a great coward! for knocking smaller boys about." "Look here," whispered the ambassador, "don't you be quite so saucy." "Shall if I like. You go and tell old Eely, old slimy Snip, that I'm not like his chosen friend Dicksee, a miserable, tale-telling sneak.
Mercer was better than I, and Hodson better still; Burr major, from being so long, bony, and thin, was anything, as Mercer used to say, but eely in the water, puffing and working hard to keep himself afloat; while Dicksee, though naturally able to swim easily from his plumpness, was, I think, the greatest coward we had there.
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