Part 2 (1/2)
”You will not send him away, Robert?” said Mrs Burnet
”Hu up his brow; ”it would seeone”
CHAPTER TWO
”TWO FOR A PAIR”
”Hullo, Cinder!”
”Hullo, Spoon!”
”Who are you calling Cinder?”
”Who are you calling Spoon?”
”You Well, Ladle then, if you don't like Spoon”
”And you have it Scorcher if you like, old Burnet”
”Burnet's a better name than Ladelle”
”Oh, is it! I don't know so much about that, Vincey And it isn't pronounced as if it was going into a soup tureen You know that well enough It's a fine old French na it _Lah Delle_; but, if you're English, it's Ladle Ha, ha, ha! Ladle for frog soup, Frenchy”
”You won't be happy till I've punched your head, Vince Burnet”
”Shan't I? All right, then: make me happy,” said Vince to another sun-browned lad whoold and purple in the sunny islet where they dwelt--and in the an a more difficult task, whichout of its skin: for he proceeded to drag off the tight blue worsted jersey shi+rt he wore, and, as it was very elastic, it clung to his back and shoulders as he pulled it over his head, and, of course, rendered him for the moment helpless--a fact of which his coht, do you?” he cried: ”you shall have it then,” and, grinning with delight, he sprang upon the other's back, nipping hi to slap and pummel hiet free, but the combination of his assailant's knees and the jersey effectively ih he heaved and tossed and jerked hi to him like Sinbad's old man of the sea, till he fell half exhausted in a thick bed of heather, where he was kept down to suffer a kind of roulade of thumps, delivered very heartily upon his back as if it were a drum
”Murder! murder!” cried Vince, in smothered tones, with the jersey over his head
”Yes, I'll give you ive you physic! How do you like that, and that, and that, Doctor?”
Each question was followed by a peculiar double knock on back or ribs
”Don't like it at all, Mike Oh, I say, do leave off!”
”Shan't Don't get such a chance every day I'll roast your ribs for you, ive in I'm done”
”Ah! that sounds as if you didn't feel sure As your father says to ive you another dose”