Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 421
story is told about them. Once, ona very dark night, the head-master saw abouthalf a dozen boys coming out of the village inn,where they had been positively forbidden to go.He could not see their faces, and as they all ran assoon as he spoke to them, he only succeeded inseizing one of the number.… … BLACK BOARD AND MASTER S SEAT, OLD SCHOOL ROOM, HARROW. waited at his desk, ready to punish his victim withgreat severity ; for the offense was counted a veryserious one. But when the boys of his form camein and passed, one by one, by his desk, each hadbut a single tail to his coat. They all had…
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