Shocky noticed that.

Betsey Short noticed it, and giggled.

The master wound up with an appropriate quotation from Scripture.

He said that the person who displaced that board had better not be encouraged by the success--he said _success_ with a curious emphasis--of the present experiment to attempt another trick of the kind.

For it was set down in the Bible that if a man dug a pit for the feet of another he would be very likely to fall in it himself.