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When he punished one of her children as he had punished the

boy Hill, for an offence against hinificance that the extra

stroke came in because of the weak teacher who allowed all these

things to be When he punished for an offence against her, he

punished lightly, as if offences against her were not

significant Which all the children knew, and they behaved

accordingly

Every now and again Mr Harby would swoop down to exa round the

class, taking book after book, coe, whilst

Ursula stood aside for all the reh the scholars It was true, since she had

corown more and more untidy,

disorderly, filthy Mr Harby pointed to the pages done before

her regie Many children he sent out to the front with their books

And after he had thoroughly gone through the silent and

quivering class he caned the worst offenders well, in front of

the others, thundering in real passion of anger and chagrin

"Such a condition in a class, I can't believe it! It is

siet

like it! Every MondayI shall come down and examine

these books So don't think that because there is nobody paying