But never shall I forget the rage that gleamed
in the tyrant's phiz! I was actually terrified to look at him, and
trembled at his voice. M'Gill was called upon, and examined
relating to the obnoxious figures. He denied flatly that any of
them were of his doing. But the master inquiring at him whose
they were, he could not tell, but affirmed it to be some trick. Mr.
Wilson at one time began, as I thought, to hesitate; but the
evidence was so strong against M'Gill that at length his solemn
asseverations of innocence only proved an aggravation of his
crime. There was not one in the school who had ever been known
to draw a figure but himself, and on him fell the whole weight of
the tyrant's vengeance. It was dreadful; and I was once in hopes
that he would not leave life in the culprit. He, however, left the
school for several months, refusing to return to be subjected to
punishment for the faults of others, and I stood king of the class.
Matters, were at last made up between M'Gill's parents and the
schoolmaster, but by that time I had got the start of him, and
never in my life did I exert myself so much as to keep the
mastery.
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