Girls' faces always tell on them.

They ain't got any backbone.

She'll get licked.

Well, it's a kind of a tight place for Becky Thatcher, because there ain't any way out of it." Tom conned the thing a moment longer, and then added: "All right, though; she'd like to see me in just such a fix--let her sweat it out!" Tom joined the mob of skylarking scholars outside.

In a few moments the master arrived and school "took in." Tom did not feel a strong interest in his studies.