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DICK CALLS AT THE SCHOOL.
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Day continued digging and pulling as before.

He screwed himself up to enduring the cottage-windows yet more stoically, and shouted again. Fancy took no notice whatever.

He shouted again the third time, with desperate vehemence; then turned suddenly about and retired a little distance, as if he had no connection with the school, but was standing there by chance.

This time she heard him, came down the garden, and entered the school at the back. Footsteps echoed across the interior, the door opened, and three-quarters of the blooming young schoolmistress's face and figure stood revealed before him; a perpendicular slice on her left-hand side being cut off by the edge of the door she held ajar. Having surveyed and recognised him, she came to the gate.

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