"I got it!" he exclaimed triumphantly.
"I know wot's wrong with you! You've got a stupid face; you can't think; you never thought in yer life."
I looked on the ground.
"Did yer ever think in yer life?"
"No, sergeant," I said humbly.
"I blinkin' well thought so!" he said and moved away.
Then the worm turned. Who was he that he should bully a scholar and a gentleman? I would lower him to the dust.
"Sergeant!"
He turned quickly.
"Wot d'ye want?" and he tried to freeze me with his look.