I didn’t see any more of him until next day; then we were taken in like prisinners of war before the school, and Doctor Dunston lecktured upon us as if we were beests of pray, and he sed that a corse of falty literatuer was to blame for our running away, and sed that the school liberary must be reformed. But he never knew the grate truth, becorse he sed we were onley running away to sea becorse of the fascenation of the ocean to the British karacter, when reely it was to be buckeneers and the terrer of the Mediterranan. Maine showed us all the points we had done wrong afterwards, and he sed the way we had fought for the best pistell was very interesting to him and a grate warning not to trust in your fellow-creetures. And, after he had lecktured upon us, Doctor Dunston flogged me and Bailey in publick, which showed the stuff we were made of, becorse, though Bailey gets very red when flogged, he has never been known to shedd a tear; and I get very white, curiously enuff; but I have never been known to shedd a tear either. THE END Transcriber’s Note The text at times uses a semi-literate narrator’s voice and spelling. Only two obvious punctuation errors have been corrected. The references here are to the page and line in the original. 198.18 in a cupboard in the gymnasium[./,] under the Replaced. rubber shoes. 201.10 flogged a single chap[,/.] Replaced. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Human Boy, by Eden Phillpotts