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"But you haven't got a watch, and so you don't know." "No," he said, with a sigh, "I haven't got that watch. Old Eely's got it a nasty, consequential, bully dandy." "Do go and lie down again," I said. "I am so sleepy!" "What for? It's time to get up." "It can't be; see how dark it is." "Oh, that's only because it's a dark morning. Get up and dress, and don't be so grumpy because I've woke you up."
"Yes, I think so," I said; "but he's a severe-looking sort of man, and very particular, and I don't think he'd consider it right for me to have a watch while I am at school." "That's what my father said when I was home for last holidays. I wanted a watch then, but not half so bad as I feel to want one now. I say!" "Well?" "I wonder how much old Eely's father gave for that one.
I suggested, with another look in the glass. "No; you must come. If you don't, the Doctor is sure to send for you, and that will make it worse. I say!" "Well?" "People who fight used to take the spoils of the vanquished. I wish I could have taken old Dicksee's four-bladed knife, with the lancet and corkscrew to it, and you could have taken old Eely's watch."
Old Eely's watch is regularly wound up." But we had not heard the end of it, for the Doctor was so much annoyed that he sent Mr Hasnip on a private diplomatic visit to his brother schoolmaster at Hastings, to speak of the trouble we were in, and to ask if it were possible that the watch had been taken by mistake.
Oh, my nose, how it does hurt!" he added, covering the swollen organ with his hand, and speaking in a snuffling tone. "I shall aim straight at old Eely's snub all the time, so as to make it twice as big as mine is. He will be so mad, for he's as proud of himself as a peacock, and thinks he's handsome. What do you think he does?" "I don't know," I said.
His is a nose that a tap will swell up, and when old Eely regularly hammered till it was soft, it looked dreadful, and when he said he'd go straight to the Doctor, Eely hammered him again till he went down on his knees and begged Eely's pardon, and promised to say it was done by a cricket-ball. I say, hark! they've got something over there. Let's go and see."
"Well, I don't know," I said. "They're so prickly." "Yes; but they can't help it, poor things. There's lots about here. Wish we could find one now, we'd take it back and hide it in old Eely's bed. I don't know though, it wouldn't be much fun now, because he'd know directly that I did it. I say, you never saw a dog with a hedgehog. Did you?" "No," I said. "It's the finest of fun.
"Oh, I say," cried Mercer at last, "talk about watches! these are something like. Why, one of 'em's worth a dozen of old Eely's." "Don't talk about it!" I said, with a shiver; and after carefully opening mine so as to gaze at the works, Mercer of course following suit, the watches were carefully returned to their cases and placed in our pockets.
I said; "it must be getting late." "Ah," said Mercer, "if I'd got a watch like old Eely's, we could tell the time." "And as you haven't, we must guess it," I said. "Look!" Mercer turned at my words, for he was looking back to see if Polly Hopley was visible at the cottage door, the news we had heard of her father being away robbing us of any desire to call.
If I'd got old Eely's watch, I could have had it under my pillow, and seen directly." "No, you couldn't," I said grumpily, for I was sleepy and cross; "it's too dark." "Well, I could have run my finger over the hands, and told by the touch. You see, I should have held the watch perfectly upright, and then the twelve would have been by the handle, and I could have told directly."
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