[Penrod by Booth Tarkington]@TWC D-Link bookPenrod CHAPTER XXIV "LITTLE GENTLEMAN" 2/13
"I'd like to hear anybody try.
Just once, that's all! I bet they'd never try it ag----OUCH!" "Why? What'd you do to 'em ?" "It's all right what I'd DO! I bet they wouldn't want to call me that again long as they lived!" "What'd you do if it was a little girl? You wouldn't hit her, would you ?" "Well, I'd----Ouch!" "You wouldn't hit a little girl, would you ?" the barber persisted, gathering into his powerful fingers a mop of hair from the top of Penrod's head and pulling that suffering head into an unnatural position.
"Doesn't the Bible say it ain't never right to hit the weak sex ?" "Ow! SAY, look OUT!" "So you'd go and punch a pore, weak, little girl, would you ?" said the barber, reprovingly. "Well, who said I'd hit her ?" demanded the chivalrous Penrod.
"I bet I'd FIX her though, all right.
She'd see!" "You wouldn't call her names, would you ?" "No, I wouldn't! What hurt is it to call anybody names ?" "Is that SO!" exclaimed the barber.
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