Wire him you allow." But when the form was filled up and ready to send, the chance of it succeeding seemed hardly worth the cost.
Finally they went down sadly after tea to the school farm and hired a kennel, and arranged for the board and lodging of their exiled pets at so much a week.
Next morning, in doleful dumps, they presented themselves before the doctor.

Arthur could hardly help remembering how, a short time ago, he had pictured himself standing in that very room, demanding the hand of Miss Violet.

Now, Smiley minor, squeaking and grunting, as he hung by his one tooth to his mother's tail, down there in the school farm, was worth half a dozen Miss Violets to him.
And his once expected uncle--! The doctor dealt shortly and decisively with the miscreants.

He caned them for defying their house-captain, and reprimanded them for imagining that dogs could be permitted under the school roof.
On being told that Mr Railsford had known all about Smiley last term, he declined to argue the matter, and concluded by a warning of the possible consequences of a repetition of the offence.
They went back to their place, sore both in body and mind.

To be caned during the first week of the term was not quite in accordance with their good resolutions, and to be bereft of the Smileys was a cruel outrage on their natural affections.