Maine showed us all the points we had done wrong afterwards, and he sed the way we had fought for the best pistell was very interesting to him and a grate warning not to trust in your fellow-creetures. And, after he had lecktured upon us, Doctor Dunston flogged me and Bailey in publick, which showed the stuff we were made of, becorse, though Bailey gets very red when flogged, he has never been known to shedd a tear; and I get very white, curiously enuff; but I have never been known to shedd a tear either.
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Transcriber’s Note
The text at times uses a semi-literate narrator’s voice and spelling. Only two obvious punctuation errors have been corrected. The references here are to the page and line in the original.
| [198.18] | in a cupboard in the gymnasium[./,] under the rubber shoes. | Replaced. |
| [201.10] | flogged a single chap[,/.] | Replaced. |