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HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE

Vol. II.—No. 104.Published by HARPER & BROTHERS, New York.price four cents.
Tuesday, October 25, 1881.Copyright, 1881, by Harper & Brothers.$1.50 per Year, in Advance.

VIC WHITNEY'S REVENGE.

BY GEORGE CARY EGGLESTON.

All the boys cried, "Shame!"

Tom Reid, who was scarcely regarded as a boy now, so nearly grown washe, went up to Hen Little, and catching him by the shoulder and shakinghim, said:

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"It seems to me you pick out your boy to bully. You ought to be ashamedof yourself, to hit a fellow under your size and not half your strength,and I've a notion to thrash you for it myself."

Nobody heard what Hen Little replied, because all the boys were talkingat once now; but somehow, when Vic Whitney rose from the ground, hisclothes torn, his nose bleeding, and his books muddy, everybody saw thathe was going to say something, and everybody listened. What he said wasthis:

"Hen Little, I've borne with you for two years; I've taken all yourmeannesses as mere teasing, and I've thought you only a little rough;but now I tell you you're a coward and a bully, and I give you warningthat I'll whip you for this day's work, if it's ten years hence."

"Boys," said Tom Reid, "I move that, as students of this High School, wehereby exclude Hen Little from all our games and sports, and regard himas an outside barbarian, until he makes a proper apology to Vic Whitneyfor what he has done."

"Second the moti

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