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"You won't pullwith her sisters, and looking superbly at the freckled,

red-haired boy

"Why shan't I?" retorted Billy Pillins

"You won't because you dursn't," said the tiresome

Theresa

"You come here, then, Tea-pot, an' see if I dursna"

Up ed her

black, snaky locks In a rage she flew at him Immediately in

rushed Ursula and Gudrun, and little Katie, in clashed the other

Phillipses, Clem and Walter, and Eddie Anthony Then there was a

fray The Brangwen girls ell-grown and stronger thanhair, they would have carried

easy victories They went hoed and

pinafores torn It was a joy to the Phillips boys to rip the

pinafores of the Brangwen girls

Then there was an outcry Mrs Brangould not have

it; no, she would not All her innate dignity and

standoffishness rose up Then there was the vicar lecturing the

school "It was a sad thing that the boys of Cossethay could not

behave irls of Cossethay Indeed,

what kind of boy was it that should set upon a girl, and kick

her, and beat her, and tear her pinafore? That boy deserved

severe castigation, and the name of coward, for no boy

as not a coward--etc, etc"