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A CREDIT TO THE SCHOOL 55
at home of his intention, went with determined
step to the Principal’s house. His cap, instead
of being set jauntily far back on his head, was
jammed well down over his eyes.
"Is the Principal at home?"
"Yes, come in."
The Principal was a large man with a thick,
blond beard and sharp, blue eyes.
"Good day, Johnny Blossom! What did you
want to see me about?"
"It is horrid, but" —great searching first in
one pocket of his trousers, then in the other —
"but if you will please take this report back" —
"Take it back? What do you mean, John?"
"Why, because it says here he is a credit to
the school, and he isn’t that — not now."
"What is that you say? Speak out, my boy."
The boy looked very little as he stood with
his knees shaking before the big Principal.
" Because — because his name has been
written in the police records today, and the
policeman took him there, and so it was horrid that
this report should say he was a credit" —
"Come, John. Tell me about it from the
beginning."
"Why, Nils of the ’Goodwill of Luckton’ got
his mother to go down-stairs and then he called
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