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"Thank you, Dicksee," said the Doctor drily, as he fixed him with his glittering glasses; "I am obliged to you. History repeats itself. There has always been one in every confederation ready to betray his fellows to save his own skin. I am afraid, Dicksee, that your skin will not be safe. Were you present, Wilson?" "Yes, sir," said the little fellow. "Fighting?" "No, sir, I wasn't fighting; but "
The occasion for trying our ability did not come off, though it was very near it several times; but as I grew more confident, the less I felt disposed to try, and Mercer always confessed it was the same with him, though the cock of the school and his miserable toady, Dicksee often led us a sad life.
"Then you won't tell about Burr major and Dicksee." "Oh no. Never do. We shall have to take it and grin and bear it, whether it's the cane or impositions. Worst of it is, it'll mean ever so much keeping in. I wouldn't care if it had been a month or two ago." "What difference would that have made?" "Why, it was all wet weather then.
"Do you wish me to come back and thrash you, Tom Mercer," said the tall boy, with a lordly manner. "No, sir, thank-ye, sir; please don't, and I'll never do so no more, sir." "Miserable beggar," said Burr major. "Here, Dicksee, come down the field and bowl for me. Bring five or six little uns to field." "Yah! Tailor!" said Mercer, as his bully marched out.
Now then. Ready!" The pair were facing each other again, and the encounter which followed was a little longer, but it ended in Mercer giving his adversary a sharp blow on the cheek, and directly after another on the nose, and Dicksee again seemed to sit down suddenly as if to wipe it, a duty which had certainly become necessary.
How queer you are! I tell you, I don't think it was you, but old fatty Dicksee; I've seen him sneaking about the yard a good deal lately, watching me, and he must have found out where we kept the key, and he has nailed it for some lark, or to tease me. Yes, that's it. You see if, next time we go, we don't find a dead dog, or a dead cat, or something nasty, tucked in the bin.
A great patch came out, and Mr Rebble pressed it together and then opened it out, and I fancied I heard the Doctor sigh with satisfaction at nothing being found. "It's further in, sir," cried Dicksee eagerly. "Ah! you seem to know a great deal about it, Dicksee," said the Doctor. "Yes, sir; I saw him put it in."
Then Dicksee came with his face all swollen up, as it was after the fight, but he was grinning derisively at me, and while Burr major seemed to hold me down by keeping one foot pressed on my chest, Dicksee knelt by my side, and began to beat my head with a cricket bat. Bang, bang! bang, bang!
"Wait a bit, you, sir, and I'll teach you to insult your seniors." "All in, all in!" "Here, Dicksee, go and hit that fellow on the mouth for shouting." "All in, all in!" came again, directed at our group. "Coming," cried Burr major. Then to me: "After morning studies, you sir. I don't suppose I shall forget."
Why, Dicksee and Dean have been fighting too, and yes Mercer." "Yes, sir," cried little Wilson. "Mercer and Dicksee had theirs first, then Burr major and Burr junior. Bill Dean hasn't been fighting. It was only that Burr junior gave him a wipe." I felt as if I were the chief offender, and as I heard these words, I longed not to deliver wipes, but to have a good wash.
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