"Yes, I am happy to say."
"I already feel a new man," said Lynch, stretching himself; "no longer a slave, bound hand and foot in fetters, I am free as the winds."
"True," said Leslie, a minute after laying down his pen, "my punishment is over, I am happy."
"Yes, we have taken all our physic, and are now free from the doctor's rule. When will you have another lark, Leslie?"
"Never again," said Leslie, folding up his paper.
How confidently he spoke.
"Now, then, what is there to be seen," exclaimed Lynch, approaching the group at the window.
"Why, come and inform us what prospect we have of playing our game of cricket to-morrow," said Hall.
"Oh, my! how it rains!"