"If he takes me up, I shall be flogged safe enough.

I can't sit here all night.

Wonder if he'll rise at silver." "I say, keeper," said he meekly, "let me go for two bob ?" "Not for twenty neither," grunts his persecutor.
And so they sat on till long past second calling-over, and the sun came slanting in through the willow-branches, and telling of locking-up near at hand.
"I'm coming down, keeper," said Tom at last, with a sigh, fairly tired out.

"Now what are you going to do ?" "Walk 'ee up to School, and give 'ee over to the Doctor; them's my orders," says Velveteens, knocking the ashes out of his fourth pipe, and standing up and shaking himself.
"Very good," said Tom; "but hands off, you know.

I'll go with you quietly, so no collaring or that sort of thing." Keeper looked at him a minute.