This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1871 Excerpt: ...asked Tom Pippin his business, and flatly refused, without any reservation, to permit the lads to dine with him. "Certainly not, sir," he said. "Teasel is a day Boy, and may do as his father pleases; but I should not vthink of allowing any indulgence to so unsatisfactory a Boy as Nightshade; and as for Northcote, he is ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1871 Excerpt: ...asked Tom Pippin his business, and flatly refused, without any reservation, to permit the lads to dine with him. "Certainly not, sir," he said. "Teasel is a day Boy, and may do as his father pleases; but I should not vthink of allowing any indulgence to so unsatisfactory a Boy as Nightshade; and as for Northcote, he is a disgrace to the school. Indeed, I have serious thoughts of expelling him." "Hooray!" cried Harry, who was looking on with half a dozen other fellows, from the garden door. "Boys, go away directly!" shouted Mr. Goggs; "you are all out of bounds." And the reverend gentleman made as though he would pursue them. But Tom Pippin telegraphed a private signal to Grab, who still waited for orders beside him; and the dog put himself at once into a playful attitude which induced the schoolmaster to stay quietly where he was. "Then--aw--you won't--aw--let them come?" said Tom, urging a last appeal. "Aw, sorry for that. Hear there's a meeting at the Town Hall to-night. I'm--aw--fond of meetings. Boys and I were thinking of aw looking in for half an hour." "I fear, sir," said Mr. Goggs, as portentously as if he were pronouncing some fellow-creature's final doom; "I fear that their hearts are not yet sufficiently under the influence of grace to enable them to profit by any godly exercise." "Aw," said Tom, apologetically, "I didn't know." And then he added, out of good natured consideration for the Boys' noses at tea time--"Aw, don't presume to advise, but aw--think you'll be more comfortable if I go away, and leave you to--aw--change your things." Tom felt perfectly certain, by the very colour of the man's linen, that he would sit down t...
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