We have shown him our mind once, and that is enough; if we let him alone now, he will see 'tis only because we are ordered, not for his sake.

It would be just putting him in the right, and maybe winning his cause for him, to use any more violence.

There's law for you, Anderson.

So now no more about it--let us all go home like rational fellows.

August, where's August ?" Tom was not visible--he generally avoided going home with his brother; and Norman having seen the boys divide into two or three little parties, as their roads lay homewards, found he had an hour of light for an expedition of his own, along the bank of the river.