[Tom, Dick and Harry by Talbot Baines Reed]@TWC D-Link bookTom, Dick and Harry CHAPTER NINE 11/21
He came down in the train with his ma--" "She wasn't," said I; "she was no relation." A loud laugh greeted this disclaimer. "Well, his nurse, or aunt, or washerwoman, or something." "No, she wasn't." "Shut up, and don't tell crams." "It's _you_ who are telling crams," said I, for the blood of the Joneses was getting up. "Look here; do you mean to call me a crammer ?" demanded the speaker, looking very imposing. "If you say it again I will," said I.
"I tell you that woman had no more to do with me than you; there!" It was a critical situation, and the key to it was in my accuser's hands.
If he insisted that the lady in question had anything to do with me, I was committed to call him a crammer.
And if I called him a crammer, he was equally committed by all tradition to punch my head. And in the humour I was then in, he was not likely to do that without getting one back for himself. "I know who it was," suddenly cried Trimble; "of course! Tempest told me last term there was a young ass coming up who'd been at a girls' school, and had got an exhibition or something.
Of course this was his old school dame.
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