Page:Tom Brown's School Days (6th ed).djvu/165

 "Let's toss two of them together, Walker," suggested he.

"What a cursed bully you are. Flashy!" rejoined the other. "Up with another one."

And so no two boys were tossed together, the peculiar hardship of which is that it's too much for human nature to lie still then and share troubles; and so the wretched pair of small boys struggle in the air which shall fall a-top in the descent, to the no small risk of both falling out of the blanket and the huge delight of brutes like Flashman.

But now there's a cry that the præpostor of the room is coming; so the tossing stops and all scatter to their different rooms; and Tom is left to turn in, with the first day's experience of a public school to meditate upon.