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these words, he pulled out some fathoms of cord, which the honest man
no sooner saw than he protested with great earnestness he would allow no
violence to be offered to him, at the same time accusing me of perfidy
and ingratitude. But Bowling representing that it was in vain to resist,
and that he did not mean to use him with violence and indecency, but
only to hinder him from raising the hue and cry against us before we
should be out of their power, he allowed himself to be bound to his
own desk, where he sat a spectator of the punishment inflicted on his
principal. My uncle, having upbraided this arbitrary wretch with his
inhumanity to me, told him, that he proposed to give him a little
discipline for the good of his soul, which he immediately put in
practice, with great vigour and dexterity. This smart application to the
pedant's withered posteriors gave him such exquisite pain that he
roared like a mad bull, danced, cursed, and blasphemed, like a frantic
bedlamite. When the lieutenant thought himself sufficiently revenged, he
took his leave of him in these words: "Now, friend, you'll remember me
the longest day you have to live; I have given you a lesson that will
let you know what flogging is, and teach you to have more sympathy for
the future. Shout, boys, shout!"

This ceremony was no sooner over than my uncle proposed they should quit
the school, and convey their old comrade Rory to the public-house, about
a mile from the village, where he would treat them all. His offer being
joyfully embraced, he addressed himself to Mr. Syntax, and begged him to
accompany us; but this invitation he refused with great disdain, telling
my benefactor he was not the man he took him to be. "Well, well, old
surly," replied my uncle, shaking his hand, "thou art an honest fellow
notwithstanding; and if ever I have the command of a ship, thou shalt be
our schoolmaster, i'faith." So saying he dismissed the boys, and locking
the door, left the two preceptors to console one another; while we moved
forwards on our journey, attended by a numerous retinue, whom he treated
according to his promise.

We parted with many tears, and lay that night at an inn on the road,
about ten miles short of the town where I was to remain, at which
we arrived next day, and I found I had no cause to complain of the
accommodations provided for me, in being boarded at the house of an
apothecary, who had married a distant relation of my mother. In a few
days