I should certainly take some kind of notice of it." "Notuss, sir, notuss! I'll take that amount of notuss of it that all the metropoluss shall hear of my wrongs.

I'll assault 'um, sir; I'll assault 'um in the face of the school,--the very next time he dares to provoke me! I'll rise in my might, and smite his bald crown with his own ruler! I'm not a tall man, Mr.Waymark, but I can reach his crown, and that he shall be aware of before he knows ut.

He sets me at naught in my own class, sir; he pooh-poohs my mathematical demonstrations, sir; he encourages my pupils in insubordination! And Mrs.Tootle! Bedad, if I don't invent some device for revenging myself on that supercilious woman.

The very next time she presumes to address me disrespectfully at the dinner-table, sir, I'll rise in my might, sir,--see if I don't!--and I'll say to her, 'Mrs.Tootle, ma'am, you seem to forget that I'm a gentleman, and have a gentleman's susceptibilities.

When I treat _you_ with disrespect, ma'am, pray tell me of ut, and I'll inform you you speak an untruth!'" Waymark smiled, with the result that the expression of furious wrath immediately passed from his colleague's countenance, giving place to a broad grin.
"Waymark, look here!" exclaimed the Irishman, snatching up a piece of chalk, and proceeding to draw certain outlines upon a black-board.
"Here's Tootle, a veritable Goliath;--here's me, as it were David.
Observe; Tootle holds in his hand his 'little compendium,' raised in haughty superciliousness.