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Glengarry Schooldays

CHAPTER III
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To make matters worse, sitting immediately behind her, and sheltered from the eye of the master, sat Jimmie Cameron, Don's youngest brother.
Jimmie was always on the alert for mischief, and ever ready to go off into fits of laughter, which he managed to check only by grabbing tight hold of his nose.

Just now he was busy pulling at the strings of Betsy Dan's apron with one hand, while with the other he was hanging onto his nose, and swaying in paroxysms of laughter.
Very red in the face, Betsy Dan began her verse.
"At midnight in the forest shades, Bozzaris--" Pause, while Betsy Dan clutched behind her.
"-- Bozzaris ranged--" ("Tchik! tchik!") a snicker from Jimmie in the rear.
"-- his Suliote band, True as the steel of--" ("im-im,") Betsy Dan struggles with her giggles.
"Elizabeth!" The master's voice is stern and sharp.
Betsy Dan bridles up, while Jimmie is momentarily sobered by the master's tone.
"True as the steel of their tried blades, Heroes in heart and hand.
There had the Persians thousands stood--" ("Tchik! tchik! tchik,") a long snicker from Jimmie, whose nose cannot be kept quite in control.

It is becoming too much for poor Betsy Dan, whose lips begin to twitch.
"There--" ("im-im, thit-tit-tit,") Betsy Dan is making mighty efforts to hold in her giggles.
"-- had the glad earth (tchik!) drunk their blood, On old Pl-a-a-t-t-e-a-'s day." Whack! whack! "Elizabeth Campbell!" The master's tone was quite terrible.
"I don't care! He won't leave me alone.

He's just--just (sob) pu--pulling at me (sob) all the time." By this time Betsy's apron was up to her eyes, and her sobs were quite tempestuous.
"James, stand up!" Jimmie slowly rose, red with laughter, and covered with confusion.
"I-I-I di-dn't touch her!" he protested.
"O--h!" said little Aleck Sinclair, who had been enjoying Jimmie's prank hugely; "he was--" "That'll do, Aleck, I didn't ask you.

James is quite able to tell me himself.


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