5/8 Get on with your work." Shock ran by us with a rush, mounted his ladder, and I hurried up mine, to go on picking as well, while, panting and hot, smarting with blows and anger, I wondered what Old Brownsmith would say to me for what I had done. "Come down and I'll give you a brush." "There you are," he said, after performing the task for me. "Was he up to his larks with you ?" "Yes," I said; "he has been pelting me, and he pretended to fall; and when I went to help him he struck me, and I couldn't stand that." "So you licked him well? If he does, give it him, and teach him better. |