“Do you think he meant me then?” asked Peter, scowling.
“I guess he did.”
“Then he insulted me.”
“It does look like it,” said John, who wanted to make mischief.
“I’ll get even with him--you see if I don’t,” said Peter, angrily.
CHAPTER XXV
A POOR GRAMMARIAN.
Peter hardly knew what to think of the new teacher. He would have liked to believe Walter afraid of him, but he was reluctantly forced to admit that there was no satisfactory evidence of this feeling as yet. The young teacher’s manner was by no means aggressive, but there was a firmness and self-possession about him that indicated anything but timidity. At length he came to a satisfactory conclusion.
“He doesn’t know how strong I am. He thinks he can lick me,” he suggested to John.
“Very likely,” acquiesced his companion.