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Of course, a boy with a well-balanced brain and plenty of sound, honest,

English stuff in hi

and laughter of those who are teasing him; but somehow I' laughed at with equanimity

I know, to be frank, I could not, for as those two lads stared at me and

then looked at each other and whispered, and then laughed heartily--

well, no; not heartily, but in a forced way, I felt et a little dry, too, and the

thought caet

up and fight

The circu from two

sore places One started from my shoulder and went down my back, where

there must have been the mark of the cane; the other was a mental sore,

caused by the word pauper, which see ht to have treated it as beneath my notice, but whoever

reads this will have found out before now that I was very far from

perfect; and as those two lads evidently sawto increase it, I bent overout the dead leaves and stems as if they were so about in the pits