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Muriel put her fingers in her ears and bowed again over her book. The bell rang, and every girl gave a deep sigh. It was partly relief and partly dread. Miss Baxter entered the room, her arms full of papers. "She's having the time of her life," Phyllis said crossly. "I bet she flunks every one of us."
It all depends." "Is Polly Currier a grind?" "I should hope not!" as if defending the lady from an insulting charge. Missy looked puzzled; then asked: "Does she ever pass?" "Oh, now and then. Sometimes she flunks. Polly should worry!" Here was strange news.
"Well, I'll bet twenty-five dollars he flunks!" breathed the bartender, straightening up. Martin turned languidly and smiled at him. "I'll take that, Charley," he replied. Johnny Nelson was always late, and on this occasion he was later than usual.
I spose a brave man, a hero, has to have all his inside things working together, to be real up and up brave, but if his heart is strong, and his liver is white, he goes to pieces in an emergency, and if his liver is all right, and he tries to fight just on his liver, when the supreme moment arrives, and his heart jumps up into his throat, and wabbles and beats too quick, he just flunks.
"Yes." "Are they mad?" "They've given us the worst job, not merely as a job, but especially for the regiment. Perhaps they won't mind if things do go wrong." "Yez mean?" "What will people say of me on November fourth, if my regiment flunks on September thirtieth?" "Arrah musha dillah!" cried Dennis. "An' is that it?" "I'm afraid so. Will the men stand by me?" "Oi'll make them.
"I hope," sighed Lady Clara, "to get through hygiene and Bible history, though, as they only count one hour apiece, I suppose it isn't much." "You mustn't be too sanguine," said Patty. "It all depends on chance. The class in hygiene is so big that the professor hasn't time to read the papers; he just goes down the list and flunks every thirteenth girl.
If one were in a blue funk of dejection because of failure in a class, he would lend the sympathy that came from his own rich experience in failures, not only past but present, for some things that come easy at sixteen come hard at sixty-five, and this man who would accept no favors had to fight his way through "flunks" and "goose-eggs" like the younger members of the class.
Gophers know better than to have holes too near the water, and the dog knows what boy flunks after he carries one pail of water, and says, 'Oh, darn a gopher anyway; I hain't lost no gopher, and goes and sits down and lets the other boys carry water.
In fact, there's no limit to what you can absorb from idle and vicious companions. In one term alone I myself picked up banjo playing, pole vaulting, a little Spanish, a bad case of mumps, and two flunks, simply by associating with the Eta Bita Pie gang twenty-seven hours a day. But nobody had to show Keg how to get jobs after his first experience.
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