[The Willoughby Captains by Talbot Baines Reed]@TWC D-Link bookThe Willoughby Captains CHAPTER TWENTY 16/22
Sang as I shaved the Vicar of Bray.
I shall now describe my fellows which are all ugly and gross.
Parson is the worst.'" "Eh ?" exclaimed the wrathful owner of that name. "`Parson is the worst,'" read Telson, with evident glee, "`and--and--' oh, let's see," he added, hurriedly turning over the page. "No, no; read fair; do you hear ?" cried Parson.
"No skipping." "I'll crack your skull, Bosher," said Telson, indignantly, handing the diary across to Parson and pointing to the passage. "`--And Telson is the most conceited ignorant schoolhouse frog I ever saw at breakfast got thirty lines for gross conduct with the abominable King.'" "There!" exclaimed Telson, in a red heat; "what does he mean by it? Of course, I don't care for myself; it's about the schoolhouse." "What's that he says about me ?" said King. "`The abominable King,'" cried Telson, reading with great relish; "`thirty lines for gross conduct with the abominable King.'" "Oh, I say, this is too much, you fellows," cried King. "Not a bit too much.
Just finish that day, Telson," said Parson, handing back the diary. "Please give it up," pleaded Bosher, but he was immediately sat upon by his outraged companions, and forced to listen to the rest of the chronicle. "`Wyndham hath not found his knife.
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