William in Trouble by Richmal Crompton

Author:Richmal Crompton [Crompton, Richmal]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Humour, Ya
ISBN: 9781447206125
Goodreads: 16562240
Publisher: Macmillan Children's Books
Published: 1927-03-01T00:00:00+00:00

Mr Lane (whose good temper still continued) was delighted with this. ‘Ha, ha!’ he said, ‘a most unconventional answer to a challenge, to be sure. Our good William’s composition and orthography are no great credit to him. I must speak to his schoolmaster about them when I meet him.’

But Mrs Lane was getting quite worked up about it.

‘You shall have a lovely tea afterwards, Huby, darling, like they do after real matches. I’ll give you a lovely tea for both teams – for both your team and Willie’s in the shed. You’ll like that, won’t you?’

Hubert mumbled ungraciously that it would be ‘all right.’ It always broke Hubert’s heart to have to give of his larder’s treasures, of his cakes with glorious icing and cream insides, to any but his very boonest of companions, and the thought of the Outlaws consuming these treasured delicacies was gall and wormwood to him.

The Outlaws practised hard for the match. They decided to make the best of the brief hour of contest and to ignore entirely the presence of Mr Lane. He might, they decided, write to their fathers as much as he liked afterwards. They were going to make the most of it while it lasted. They were going to jolly well lick the Hubert Laneites to a fizzle.

Rumours, too, of the glorious tea to be provided by Mrs Lane had reached them and still further exalted their spirits. The Outlaws were not proud. They would not refuse iced cakes because they came from the (metaphorically) gilded larder of the opulent Lanes. Rather would they consume them with might and main in order that fewer might fall to the Laneites’ share.

And now Henry’s sister’s walking toy monkey comes into the story again.

Henry’s sister loved the monkey very dearly (out of pure contrariness, Henry considered), and wept bitterly whenever she was deprived of it. And she had been deprived of it last week, when, without asking her or anyone’s permission, Henry had taken Monk to form part of a circus organised by William. Henry had been sternly reprimanded by his father for this offence, and on the very day before the hockey match he committed it again.

William was giving a repeat performance of his circus, and Monk as one of the star turns simply had to be present, so Henry had taken Monk again, hoping that his small and tyrannical sister would not notice its absence. But the small and tyrannical sister had noticed Monk’s absence and had sobbed bitterly all the afternoon. . . .

Henry’s mother’s tender heart had been touched by the small sister’s grief and hardened against Henry. Henry’s mother was really very nice, but she took her duty as Henry’s mother rather too seriously. She had read that afternoon an article on the upbringing of children which said that the punishment should fit the crime. The writer said: ‘If a child has taken some article which he has been forbidden to take, then he must be made to carry the

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