“How dare you stand there and tell me such an untruth?” said the dean. “Do you suppose I cannot smell? I say you have been eating onions, and the odour is very nasty indeed.”
“Please, sir, I have not really eaten any onions,” said King.
“What! Do you persist in telling me such a falsehood. You shall be punished at once. Mr. Harmer!”
“Yes, sir,” said the master.
“Give this boy at once a good caning. He has dared to tell me a lie and persist in it.”
As the dean said this, he walked away.
When Mr. Harmer was about to cape King, the boy said he really had not been eating onions.
“I can smell them,” said the master.
“That’s something I’ve got on my coat,” replied King.
“How did you get it on your coat?”