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Roddy naturally inquired. Whack! "OW!" cried Roddy. "That's no fair!" "You got to say just what I say," Penrod was heard informing him. "That's the rixual, and anyway, even if you do get it right, Verman's got to hit you every now and then, because that's part of the rixual, too. Now go on and say it. 'I solemnly swear to keep the secrets in infadelaty and violate and sanctuary."
Everybody agreed that the afternoon had been one of the most successful and important in many weeks. The Order of the In-Or-In was doing splendidly, and yet every brother felt, in his heart, that there was one thing that could spoil it. Against that fatality, all were united to protect themselves, the shack, the rixual, the opera-glasses and the water-and-speaking tube.
Verman, being tongue-tied not without advantage in this case, and surely an ideal qualification for membership was not so apprehensive. He voted with Sam and Penrod, carrying the day. From these and other sources, Penrod found no difficulty in compiling material for what came to be known as the "rixual"; and it was the rixual he was reading to the members when Mrs.
Roddy was elected, and consented to undergo the initiation. He was not the only new member that day. A short time after Roddy had been taken into the shack for the reading of the rixual and other ceremonies, little Maurice Levy entered the Williams' gate and strolled round to the backyard, looking for Sam.
"We wanted it all to be nice, because you said we had to have him, papa, and after lunch Penrod went to guard him that's a new part in the rixual and he brought him over, and we took him out to the shack and blindfolded him, and well, he got kind of mad because we wanted him to lay down on his stummick and be tied up, and he said he wouldn't, because the floor was a little bit wet in there and he could feel it sort of squashy under his shoes, and he said his mother didn't want him ever to get dirty and he just wouldn't do it; and we all kept telling him he had to, or else how could there be any 'nishiation; and he kept gettin' madder and said he wanted to have the 'nishiation outdoors where it wasn't wet and he wasn't goin' to lay down on his stummick, anyway."
Well, then we had the rixual, and and why, the teeny little paddlin' he got wouldn't hurt a flea! It was that little coloured boy lives in the alley did it he isn't anyways near HALF Georgie's size but Georgie got mad and said he didn't want any ole nigger to paddle him.
After that, Maurice was summoned and underwent the ordeal with fortitude, though the newest brother still tingling with his own experiences helped to make certain parts of the rixual unprecedentedly severe. Once endowed with full membership, Maurice and Roddy accepted the obligations and privileges of the order with enthusiasm.
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