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Updated: June 26, 2025
In spite, however, of a pricking conscience, I still continued to give only a passing glance at my lessons at the very last moment. But generally "Mr. Ratin" would write "good" or "very good" upon the paper which it was my duty each evening to show to my father.
Belmont Pepper, who's the only boss I ever had that I calls the real thing; but Mr. Robert would get a ratin' anywhere. "Torchy," says he after a bit, "I'm inclined to think that you'll do. Have a chair." "Don't I get the blue ticket, then?" says I. "No," says he, "not until you do something worse than obey orders.
Ratin" hit off in caricature so neatly by Topffer; he had all the marks, even to the wart with the three hairs, and fine wrinkles beyond number at the end of his old nose; to me his face was the personification of all that was hideous and disgusting. He arrived every day precisely at noon; and a chill would pass through me when I heard his knock which I would have recognized among a thousand.
After a short, brief sprint the rabbit would crouch down plumb terrified, while the Honk-honks pulled off triumphal dances around his shrinkin' form. Our ranch got to be purty well known them days among automobeelists. The strength of their cars was horse-power, of course, but the speed of them they got to ratin' by chicken-power.
It may have struck you that to possess the sole and exclusive knowledge of the whereabouts of a million or two ratin' it low is some considerable of an asset. And it's one I ain't got the least idee of partin' with unless for inducements held out." Aunt Jane gave a faint shriek. I had been silently debating what my own course should be in the face of this unexpected development.
"I tell ye, Doctor, if I'd 'a' had a sound arm, he'd 'a' gone after it; but I had to take it out in ratin' at him, and that night my mind was made up; I was bound to desart at the first land.
But, upon reflection, they considered that I was too frail and delicate a human plant to be thrown in contact with those others of my kind who, in all probability, would play roughly, and have bad manners; they concluded, therefore, to keep me at home a little longer. At any rate I was delivered from "Mr. Ratin."
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