"You will please to observe"
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said old schoolmaster Lamwell, as he led a party of gentlemen through his
school, "that the boys are required to observe the utmost attention to
quietness as well as discipline." They had at this moment arrived in front of
several boys standing around a water bucket, and one had just charged his
mouth with the contents of the cup, while the old gentleman was stooping over
to recover his pen from the floor, when another, passing along behind,
snapped his fingers quick under the drinker's ear, which caused him on a
sudden to eject the contents of his mouth over the pedagogue's bald pate.
Standing upright, with his face and hair dripping, he shouted aloud, "who did
that?" The party unanimusly cried out, "Jim Gunn, sir." "James Gunn, what did
you do that for?" Jim, appalled at the mischief he had done, muttered that it
was not his fault-that Tom Owen snapped him. This changed the direction of
old Lamwell's wrath, and shaking his cane portentously over Owen's head, he
asked, "Did you snap Gunn?" The culprit, trembling with fear, muttered, "Yes,
sir, I snapped Gunn, but I didn't know that he was loaded.