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XXII JOEL
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XXII JOEL
"Hate school?" cried Mother Fisher. "Oh, Joey! think how Ben wanted more schooling1, only he
wouldn't take the chance when Mr. King offered it to him because he felt that he must be earning
money as soon as possible. Oh, Joey!"
That "Oh, Joey!" cut deeply. Joel winced2 and burrowed3 deeper under his mother's fingers.
"That's just it," he cried. "Ben wanted it, and I don't. I hate it, and I don't want to go back."
"Don't want to go back?" repeated Mrs. Fisher in dismay.
"No, I don't. The fellows are always twitting me, and every one gets ahead of me, and I'm
everlastingly4 staying in from ballgames to make up lessons, and I'd like to fire the books, I would,"
cried Joel with venom5.
Mrs. Fisher said nothing, but the hands still stroked the brown stubby head in her lap.
"And nobody cares for me because I won't be smart like the others, but I can't help it, I just hate
school!" finished Joel in the same strain.
"Joel," said Mrs. Fisher slowly, "if that is the case, I shall go down to Mr. King and tell him that
we, Father Fisher and I, Polly and Phronsie, will not go abroad with him."
Joel bolted upright and, putting down his two hands, brought his black eyes to bear on her.
"What?"
"I shall go directly downstairs and tell Mr. King that Father Fisher and I, Polly and Phronsie, will
not go abroad with him," repeated his mother slowly and distinctly while she looked him fully6 in
the face.
"You can't do that," said Joel in amazement7. "He's engaged the state- rooms."
"That makes no difference," said Mrs. Fisher, "when a woman has a boy who needs her, nothing
should stand in the way. And I must stay at home and take care of you, Joel."
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wheedlingly
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astonishment
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frightful
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