"If you don't understand it, no matter," added Richard, with a merry twinkle of the eye.
"If you call me by that, or any other improper name, you shall suffer for it."
"How many of you will it take to punish me for it, eh, Dobbin?"
"Dobbin again?"
"Do you know a fellow by the name of Kennedy?" added Richard. "If you don't, I'll introduce you some day."
Nevers concluded that Richard was a tough customer, and he made no further allusion to any suffering in store for his defiant rival. But Richard's taunt about Kennedy, and his promises to introduce him, were not pleasant to the bully, and he walked away. He feared that the victim had been making dangerous discoveries.
On the following morning the battalion took up the line of march for the Institute, and arrived without incident or accident; and that night the boys exchanged the hard ground for the iron bedsteads in the barracks.
CHAPTER XVII.
RICHARD GIVES THE TUNBROOKERS A LESSON IN BOATING.