It grew so exciting I raised my hand, and almost before she nodded permission, "Which whipped ?" I asked.
Miss Amelia turned red as a beet.

Gee, but she was mad! "I did!" she said.

"Or at least I will.

You may remain for it after school is dismissed." Now if you are going to be switched, they never do it until they are just so angry anyway, and then they always make it as hard as they dare not to stripe you, so it isn't much difference HOW provoked they are, it will be the same old thrashing, and it's sure to sting for an hour at least, so you might as well be beaten for a little more as hardly anything at all.

At that instant from the fence not far from my window came a triumphant crow that fairly ripped across the room.
"Oh, it was the Dorking!" I said.