CHAPTER II.
OSCAR IN SCHOOL.
Oscar's school--The divisions and classes--Lively and pleasant sights--Playing schoolmaster--Carrying the joke too far to be agreeable--Oscar's indolence in school--Gazing at the blackboard--A release from study, and an unexpected privilege--Whiling away an hour--Doing nothing harder work than studying--A half-learned lesson--A habit of Oscar's--A ridiculous blunder--Absurd mistakes of the British government about the great lakes--Oscar less pardonable than they--Another blunder--Difference between guessing and knowing--Oscar detained after school--His recitation--Good advice--Remembering the blackboard--Willie Davenport--A pounding promised..