I hit her with a plank and she up and kicked me eight times before I could move off.

Perhaps I riled her.

I thought you should always hit them before you begin." Joel had not seen his parents since he had left home in the preceding fall, and naturally a warm welcome awaited him.

Mr.March, to Joel's relief, did not appear to regret the loss of the Goodwin scholarship nearly as much as Joel himself had done, and seemed rather proud than otherwise of the lad's first year at the Academy.
In August Outfield West descended at the little station accompanied by two trunks, a golf-bag, a photograph camera, and a dress-suit case; and Farmer March regarded the pile of luggage apprehensively, and undoubtedly thought many unflattering thoughts of West.

But as no one could withstand that youth for long, at the end of three days both Joel's father and mother had accepted him unreservedly into their hearts.