r every day."

Phil told him that was stuff and nonsense here. There was no room and no
time for such home-doings. The boys all washed their heads and feet on
Saturdays. He would soon find that he might be glad to get his face and
hands done in the mornings.

The other boys in the room were, or pretended to be, so disgusted with
the very idea of washing feet in a basin, that they made Hugh rinse and
rub out the tin basin several times before they would use it, and then
there was a great bustle to get down stairs at the second bell. Hugh
pulled his brother's arm, as Phil was brushing out of the room, and
asked, in a whisper, whether there would be time to say his prayers.

"There will be prayers in the school-room. You must be in time for
them," said Phil. "You had better come with me."

"Do wait one moment, while I just comb my hair."

Phil fidgeted, and others giggled, while Hugh tried to part his hair, as
Susan had taught him. He gave it up, and left it rough, thinking he
would come up and do it when there was nobody there to laugh at him.

The school-room looked chilly and dull, as there was no sunshine in it
till the afternoon; and still Mr. Tooke was not there, as Hugh had hoped
he would be. Mrs. Watson and the servants came in for prayers, which
were well read by the usher; and then everybody went to
business:--everybody but Hugh and Holt, who had nothing to do. Class
after class came up for repetition; and this repetition seemed to the
new boys an accomplishment they should never acquire. They did not think
that any practice would enable them to gabble, as everybody seemed able
to gabble here. Hugh had witnessed something of it before,--Phil having
been wont to run off at home, "Sal, Sol, Ren et Splen," to the end of
the passage, for the admiration of his sisters, and so much to little
Harry's amusement, that Susan, however busy she might be, came to
listen, and then asked him to say it again, that cook might hear what he
learned at school. Hugh now thought that none of them gabbled quite so
fast as Phil: but he soon found out, by a glance or two of Phil's to
one side, that he was trying to astonish the new boys. It is surprising
how it lightened Hugh's heart to find that his brother did not quite
despise, or feel ashamed of him, as he had begun to think: but that he
even took pains to show off. He was sorry too when the usher spoke
sharply to Phil, and even rapped his head with the cane, asking him what
he