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"But are we to let that brother of mine insult his majesty's troops?" "We can afford to treat it with contempt," said Scarlett, solemnly, though Nat's words and allusions made him feel disposed to laugh. "But I want to treat it to a big leathering, Master Scar. Here, sir, mayn't I ride after him and fetch him off his horse?" "No; certainly not."
You're right there, and cold and hungry too, sleeping in the gable-house with the cow, and not getting much but the milk I was staling from her, and a leathering at the ould man for that. Philip fetched me in here one evenin' that was the start, ma'am. See that pepper-and-salt egg on the string there? It's a Tommy Noddy's. Philip got it nesting up Gob-ny-Garvain. Nearly cost him his life, though.
Amongst those seven were two men that it was no small gratification to the Harkaway party to see once more in their power. These two men were Hunston and Toro the Italian. Sunday stood over the latter, leathering into his half insensible carcase in a way that threatened to cover it with bruises; and at every blow he had something fresh to say.
"Oh, crickey," shouted out Master Negus at the top of his voice, at once betraying his whereabouts in his excitement, "there's a fight going on in the water, and two whales are leathering each other like fun!" "Good gracious me!" exclaimed Mrs Major Negus, jumping up in a fright from the comfortable nap which she had been taking in a lean-back chair on the poop; "where is that unhappy boy?
I cut out the broken boughs, and Ike brought down the ladder for me and smoothed over the footmarks, chatting about the events of the past night the while. "He won't get no police to work, my lad, not he. Forget all about it directly. Makes him a bit raw, o' course," said Ike, smoothing away with the rake. "Haw! haw! haw! Think o' you two leathering of 'em.
You shall have a day." "Good-bye, Polly," I said, shaking hands. "You've quite cured my head." "I am so glad, sir!" she cried; and I went back to the school, Bob seeing me part of the way, and saying to me confidentially as we walked, "You see me leathering that poaching vagabond Magglin, sir. It's like this. The reason for it was No, sir. Good-night.
Then your turn comes, and you ups and says, 'most as chuff as he does: `No, uncle, you says, `I give him the orflest leathering he ever had in his life. `Did you, Aleck? he says, rubbing his hands together, joyful like. `Well done, my boy, he says; `I like that. I wish I'd been there to see. Brayvo! Now go and wash your face and brush your clothes and 'air." "Think he would, Tom?"
'Ho! ho! said the Squire; 'I see very well who has been here; but as for you, a pretty set of blockheads you must be to sit here and let the Master Thief steal the horses from between your legs. So they all got a good leathering because they had not kept a sharper look-out.
It proved too much for him; the will to do it expired, and away went the letters into the fog. Some boys whispered that he was sighing for his friend Ray; others teased him by muttering: "Diddums get whacked by the prefects? Diddums get a leathering?" Poor Doe!
Any man would be in a hurry if he was as hungry as that judge." "That may be. Any way, whatever the reason of it was, he had Patsy Flaherty leathering the mare like the devil. Then, as soon as ever Miss King set eyes on him, she was up out of the little bed where she was, and the papers threw down on the ground, and her running as fast as ever she could leg it across the grass."
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