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"Did Eely tell you to come and ask?" said Mercer, glancing toward where Burr major was anxiously watching in our direction. "Never you mind. Are you going to tell?" "What is it to you?" "A good deal. You tell, and half a dozen of us mean to wallop you two, and you won't like that." "Oh, I shouldn't mind, and Burr junior wouldn't.
Now when these poor sun-burnt mariners, bare-footed, and with their trowsers rolled high up on their eely legs, had wearily hauled their fat fish high and dry, promising themselves a good 150 pounds from the precious oil and bone; and in fantasy sipping rare tea with their wives, and good ale with their cronies, upon the strength of their respective shares; up steps a very learned and most Christian and charitable gentleman, with a copy of Blackstone under his arm; and laying it upon the whale's head, he says "Hands off! this fish, my masters, is a Fast-Fish.
"It don't matter what he says, Frank; he can't undo what we have done, and old Eely will never dare to tackle you again." "Or you." "Oh, I didn't say that. Come on." We went up to where Mr Rebble was standing, and found that Mr Hasnip was there too. As we went in, Mr Hasnip came close to my side. "Nice object you look for a gentleman's son, sir! Going to be a soldier, eh?" "Yes, sir!"
"I wonder what Mr Hasnip will set us to do," I thought, as the clock at last told that the morning's studies were nearly at an end, and I was still wondering when the boys rose, and Eely Burr, Dicksee, and the other big fellow, Hodson, came round behind us, and the first whispered, "Lucky for you two that you didn't tell. My! I shouldn't have liked to be you, if you had."
Oh, I say, won't old Eely be pleased that we've got off!" I did not answer, for I still felt that I should like to go and tell the Doctor frankly everything that had passed.
"Go and scent your handkerchief," said Mercer angrily. "I'd tell if I liked." "If they weren't here, I'd punch your ugly head," whispered Eely, and they all three went out, leaving us two alone in the great schoolroom, with the ushers at one end, and the Doctor, contrary to his usual custom, still in his desk at the other. "Stand, Thomas Mercer and Burr junior," he said.
You're fond of physic; you shall have such a dose. Mind, you boys, that old Jollop doesn't sneak off." "All right!" rose in chorus; "he shan't go." "Mind he don't lick you, Eely," cried one of the boys at the window. "Mind Tommy Wilson don't sneak off either," said Burr major. "All right, Tommy, I can't fight you, but I can stretch those ugly great ears for you."
Now when these poor sun-burnt mariners, bare-footed, and with their trowsers rolled high up on their eely legs, had wearily hauled their fat fish high and dry, promising themselves a good L150 from the precious oil and bone; and in fantasy sipping rare tea with their wives, and good ale with their cronies, upon the strength of their respective shares; up steps a very learned and most Christian and charitable gentleman, with a copy of Blackstone under his arm; and laying it upon the whale's head, he says "Hands off! this fish, my masters, is a Fast-Fish.
Hooray! hooray!" he cried, dancing round the room and snapping his fingers; "we've licked 'em we've licked 'em! and you're cock of the school. Hooray! hooray!" "But I half wish I hadn't won now," I said. "You will not to-morrow. Oh dear! poor old Eely! didn't he squirm! Oh, I say! I wish I had given it to old Dicksee ten times as much."
Wish I'd got a gun of my own!" "You're always wishing for guns and watches, or something else you haven't got," I said, laughing. "Well, that's quite natural, isn't it?" cried Mercer good-humouredly. "I always feel like that, and it does seem a shame that old Eely should have tail coats and white waistcoats and watches, and I shouldn't. But, I say, Frank, he can't fight, can he?"
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