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that meant; and so I asked him if he
would be so good as to tell me what I
had done to displease him.

‘‘ You pretend not to know, do you 2”
said he. ‘I'll teach you. You'll find
out that you’ve gota pretty hard fellow
to deal with, when you cross my track,
you little tell-tale.”

And he struck me a blow on the side
of my head so hard that it almost stunned
me, and made my head ache all that day
and most of the night.

‘‘'There!”’ he said, “that will teach
you better than to peach on Joe Ball.”

I could not understand in what way I
bad ‘‘ crossed the track’? of Joe Ball. I