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"I won't run after him any more," I said to myself one day "He's half

a wild beast, and if he wants us to be enee, as far as education went If I

had been set to answer the questions in an examination paper I believe I

should have failed; but all the sareat deal of

French, German, and Latin, and I could write a fair hand and express

myself decently on paper But when I sat at our atching Shock's

wonderful activity, and recalled how splendidly he must be able to swi, and that he was a

long way ahead of row less frequent;

but whenever the weather was fine and o over; and towards the end old Browns armed

Windsor chair, with its cushions, used to be set under a big quince tree

in the centre walk, just where there were most flowers, and as soon as

we had reached it the old fellow used to come doith a piece of

carpet to double up and put beneath my mother's feet