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Updated: May 17, 2025
It's little I can teach; but, if you like, I'll teach you all I know." "O Phineas!" One flash of those bright, moist eyes, and he walked hastily across the road. Thence he came back, in a minute or two, armed with the tallest, straightest of briar-rose shoots. "You like a rose-switch, don't you? I do. Nay, stop till I've cut off the thorns."
He laughed but I think he was pleased. We had now come into a hilly region. John leaped out and gained the top of the steep road long before the post-chaise did. I watched him standing, balancing in his hands the riding-whip which had replaced the everlasting rose-switch, or willow-wand, of his boyhood.
He flung himself down, wrung out his wet stockings, laughed at me for being so afraid he would take cold, and so angry at young Brithwood's insults. I sat wrapped in my cloak, and watched him making idle circles in the sandy path with the rose-switch he had cut. A thought struck me. "John, hand me the stick and I'll give you your first writing lesson."
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