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in second of grammar this morning.
—Let us get up a rebellion, Fleming said. Will we?
All the fellows were silent. The air was very silent and
you could hear the cricket bats but more slowly than before:
pick, pock.
Wells asked:
—What is going to be done to them?
—Simon Moonan and Tusker are going to be flogged,
Athy said, and the fellows in the higher line got their choice
of flogging or being expelled.
—And which are they taking? asked the fellow who had
spoken first.
—All are taking expulsion except Corrigan, Athy an-
swered. He’s going to be flogged by Mr Gleeson.
—I know why, Cecil Thunder said. He is right and the
other fellows are wrong because a flogging wears off after a
bit but a fellow that has been expelled from college is known
all his life on account of it. Besides Gleeson won’t flog him
hard.
—It’s best of his play not to, Fleming said.
—I wouldn’t like to be Simon Moonan and Tusker Cecil
Thunder said. But I don’t believe they will be flogged. Per-
haps they will be sent up for twice nine.
—No, no, said Athy. They’ll both get it on the vital spot.
Wells rubbed himself and said in a crying voice:
—Please, sir, let me off!
Athy grinned and turned up the sleeves of his jacket, say-
ing:

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