Crossword-Solution: MITCHAM 7 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 16

One evening when at supper, one of the buglers, named Mitcham, a lad of nearly eighteen, made some sneering remark about boys who thought themselves above others, and gave themselves airs.

You see we are altogether behindhand with our work now, and have got to work hard to put ourselves on your level." Tom spoke so good-temperedly that there was a general feeling in his favor, and several of them who had before thought with Mitcham, that the new-comers were not inclined to be sociable, felt that they had been mistaken.

Mitcham, however, who was a surly-tempered young fellow, and who was jealous of the progress which the boys were making, and of the general liking with which they seemed to be regarded, said,-- "I believe that's only an excuse for getting away from us." "Do you mean to say that you think that I am telling a lie?" Tom asked quietly.

That's the rule, and you can't fight Mitcham; he's two years older, at least, and a head taller." "Of course I will fight him," Tom said.

However, as it was plain that Tom would not take a thrashing for the blow he had struck, and there did not seem any satisfactory way out of it, nothing was done, except that two or three of them went up to Mitcham, and strongly urged him to shake hands with Tom, and confess that he had done wrong in giving him the lie.