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Updated: May 15, 2025
I suppose I have been in the wrong, but I did not really know what I had been doing when you sent your letter." "Of course you did not, my boy; but er I was not thinking of that. It was about your conduct generally, and I had made up my mind to have you here and give you what you would call a wigging, Archie eh? wigging, sir!
This subjection of sire to son is, however, mainly ceremonious: in private life the king wears a cotton pagne, and his "governor" asserts his birth- right even by wigging royalty. We disposed ourselves upon seamen's chests covered with red baize, fronting the semi-circle of frock-coated "gentlemen" and half-naked dependants and slaves.
Bob Roberts, although feeling far from exalted now, did not in anywise believe in the possibility of receiving what his companion euphoniously termed a "wigging," and with a good deal of his customary independent, and rather impudent, swagger he followed the orderly to a cool lamp-lit room, where sat in solemn conclave, the resident, Major Sandars, and Captain Horton.
Lunch-time came, and Pringle crept through the place where he was seated, glanced at Mr Brandon's door, stepped close up, and whispered "I'm going to get my dinner. Don't look downhearted about a wigging, Mr Tom. It's nothing when you're used to it."
"Come," thought John as he paused, "they deserve a 'wigging, but I don't want to make a 'Star-chamber matter' of this. I wish he would not be so supernaturally serious." "John," repeated Brandon, "on occasion of this unexpected hospitality, I feel called upon to make a speech." John sat down, wondering what would come next.
"We'll go when we can get water; and we'll get water when the tank track is cleared. That's all there is to it." Whereupon he found his cigar case, passed it to Hector, lighted up, and waited patiently for another second-hand wigging from the Nadia.
A vain man, was Button, and dearly he loved the adulation of his comrades, high or low. Veteran Irish sergeants knew well how to reach the soft side of "The Old Man." Astute troop commanders, like Snaffle, saved themselves many a deserved wigging by judicious use of blarney.
Vanka sighed, dipped his pen, and went on writing: "And yesterday I had a wigging. The master pulled me out into the yard by my hair, and whacked me with a boot-stretcher because I accidentally fell asleep while I was rocking their brat in the cradle. And a week ago the mistress told me to clean a herring, and I began from the tail end, and she took the herring and thrust its head in my face.
As he went on reading some one would discover that he was getting a wigging, and would give a jump, believing that all his failings were in the paper. When the time drew near for leaving off work, a brisker note sounded in the workshop.
"You'll get a wigging. You'd better stick to 'The cat can catch the mouse, et cetera." "I finished that years ago," said Kirk, loftily. "This is a different book, even. Listen to this: 'Ugh! There sat the dog with eyes as big as as " "Tea-cups," said Felicia. "'T-e-a-c-' yes, it is tea-cups," Kirk conceded; "how did you know, Phil? 'as big as tea-cups, staring at him.
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