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Title: Lob Lie-by-the-fire : or, The luck of Lingborough and other tales
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Ewing, Juliana Horatia Gatty, 1841-1885 Woodward, Alice B
Subjects: Fantasy Short stories, English
Publisher: (London) : G. Bell
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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t will be believed that when his punishment andhis lessons were over, Tim allowed his shoes to takehim quietly home. THE SHOES AT SCHOOL. When Timothys mother heard how he had beenin the marsh, she decided to send him at once to areal boys school, as he was quite beyond damesmanagement. So he was sent to live with Dr.Dixon Airey, who kept a school on the moors,assisted by one usher, a gentleman who had verylong legs and used very long words, and who worecommon spectacles of very high power on workdays, and green ones on Sundays and holidays. And Timothys shoes went with him. On the whole he liked being at school. He likedthe boys, he did not hate Dr. Airey much, and hewould have felt kindly towards the Usher but forcertain exasperating circumstances. The Usherwas accustomed to illustrate his lessons by examplesfrom familiar objects, and as he naturally had notmuch imagination left after years of grinding at the Youve been in the marsh, Timothy, said the dame.Put on your shoes (p. 84).
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TIMOTHYS SHOES 85 rudiments of everything with a succession of lazylittle boys, he took the first familiar objects thatcame to hand, and his examples were apt to be tame.Now though Timothys shoes were well-known inhis native village, they created quite a sensation inDr. Dixon Aireys establishment, and the Usherbrought them into his familiar examples till Timothywas nearly frantic. Thus : If Timothys shoescost 8s. yd. without the copper tips, etc.; or, illus-trating the genitive case, Timothys shoes, or theshoes of Timothy, or again : The shoes. Of theshoes. To or for the shoes. The shoes. O shoes !By, with, or from the shoes. Ill run away by, with, or from the shoesshortly, groaned Timothy, see if I dont. I cantstand it any longer. I wouldnt mind it, if I were you, returnedBramble minor. They all do it. Look at thefellow who wrote the Latin Grammar ! He looksround the schoolroom, and the first thing that catcheshis eyes goes down for the first declension, forma,a form. Theyre all alik

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