[The Cock-House at Fellsgarth by Talbot Baines Reed]@TWC D-Link bookThe Cock-House at Fellsgarth CHAPTER EIGHT 8/19
"There'll be time enough for a grammar lesson after." "Can't do it to-day, we've got syntax this afternoon," said D'Arcy. "Now, you youngsters, look here," said the captain.
"You may think you're very clever; but this sort of thing is cheating, and cheating is what cads do.
We don't want any of it inside Fellsgarth.
Dangle, here are the youngsters, and here is the switch; will you lick them, or shall I ?" "I don't want to lick them.
Let them off," growled Dangle. The hopes of the culprits rose for a moment, but they went down below zero when Yorke picked up the cane. "Wheatfield, come here." Wally held out his case-hardened hand and received half a dozen cats, for which it is earing a good deal that they made the recipient dance. D'Arcy followed, and received his six with meek indifference.
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