SCHOOLDAYS BEGIN AGAIN
a stick of suitable size. Having found one, he looked round, for the boys, but they were on their feet and half-way up an old oak tree that Stood handy. Here they brooded on their wrongs until the tea-bell rang. However, Tommy slipped and fell on to the ground with a bang. He scrambled up, and they went fearfully into the house. During dinner Harry attempted to nudge Tommy, but instead he kicked his father, who was in the act of raising a cup of hot tea to his lips. "Ow!" he cried, as the tea burnt him. Then he looked at the guilty Harry. "Go to bed at once," he said, "and I hope it will teach you not to play tricks on me." As for Tommy, he said that night as he went to bed himself: "I'm glad I did not resolve to behave myself every day this year."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 130, 4 June 1938, Page 20
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