10/22 But it's all that's wanted--up here, that is. They won't always mind that song even, down there. And if anyone sings it, they stand grinning at him awfully; and if he gets frightened, and misses a word, or says a wrong one, they--oh! don't they give it him!' 'What do they do to him ?' asked Irene, with a trembling voice. Everybody knows that's against the law.' 'Yes, indeed it is!' said the nurse, beginning to cry again. 'And I shall have to suffer for it.' 'What does that matter ?' said the boy. |