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"I played moocher," he continued, by which he meant truant, "and then they whopped I, and a went home to mother, and she kept un at home, the old vool!" "Well, Gearge, thee must work hard, and I'll teach thee, Gearge, I'll teach thee!" said little Abel, proudly. "And by-and-by, Gearge, we'll get a slate, and I'll teach thee to write too, Gearge, that I will!"
"I heared that you had got back again from sea, an' that you had whopped the Yankees first time tryin', same as our fellers done down to Charleston." "Yes, sir," replied Marcy, seating himself, and depositing his feet on the railing, as if to indicate that he was quite at the service of his friend Kelsey as long as the latter wanted to talk to him.
"What's the matter now?" the manager asked, after one look at the newcomer's face. "Is the river up again?" "River be blowed it's the niggers. Stepped out of the cane-grass not a dozen feet away, and whopped at me. It was a Snider, and he shot from the hip. Now what I want to know is where'd he get the Snider? Oh, I beg your pardon. Glad to know you, Mr. Arkwright." "Mr.
The milkman whopped at the back gate; the cracked school-bell around the corner rang out long and loud; somewhere a carpenter was pounding stroke upon stroke; and, as a background, beneath all came up the heavy grinding roll of wheels and the clashing beat of hoofs upon the rough pavement.
Baker fell into the pond in his best rig, sir!... Accident?... 'Nothing will save you, fine scholar though you are! says I.... Accident!... I whopped him, sir, till I couldn't lift my arm...." His voice faltered. "I whopped 'im!" he repeated, rattling his teeth; then, after a while, let out a mournful sound that was half a groan, half a snore. Mr. Baker shook him by the shoulders. "Hey! Cook!
And then Trieve sent another message saying that Scaife was to go to his room at once to be whopped." "To be whopped. Um! Rather drastic that, very drastic under the circumstances." "So we thought, sir; and I went to represent the facts to Trieve " "Well?" "I'm not much of a peacemaker, I fear, sir. Trieve refused to listen to me.
George's grandfather gave the boy a couple of sovereigns for that feat and promised to reward him further for every boy above his own size and age whom he whopped in a similar manner. It is difficult to say what good the old man saw in these combats; he had a vague notion that quarrelling made boys hardy, and that tyranny was a useful accomplishment for them to learn.
"I think you might have whopped Jack when he came out from his interview with the Dorkings," Kew said: "the poor devil was so bewildered and weak, that Alfred might have thrashed him. At other times you would find it more difficult, Barnes my man." Mr.
"I'm not stoppin' you, but you won't go till I've whopped you once good. Will you take it now?" "Let's talk it over reasonable," Bob pleaded. Dud looked disgusted. "I never see such a fellow for thinkin' he could chin himself outa trouble. Nothin' doing." "You've got no right to interfere in my affairs.
"Aint nobody to be whopped for this here?" exclaimed Sam Weller when he saw his employer's name written up on a stage coach, and conceived the phenomenon as an insult which reflected on himself.
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