to increase his wrath.

He knew that it was not the teacher who was responsible for his presence
at school, but he thought that she _wished_ him to be there, because
she insisted that he sit still, and she would not let him leave the
room.

"It was the p'liceman what _brung_ me here, but I'll bet 'twas her
_axed_ him to," he whispered, thus showing how angry were his thoughts,
and how greatly he needed the training that the teacher stood ready
to give.

His mother had not dared to keep him at home, although she needed his
help.

Gyp could not understand why she had agreed to let him go to a place
where he could neither _earn_ nor _steal_ food for the family. _He_
felt that she had not stood by him.

He dared not play truant, because he so feared the policeman who had
said that he _must_ attend school.

Poor Gyp! Ignorant, and born of ignorant parents, he believed, as they
did, that if he did not go to school, he would be sent to jail! Jail
was the only thing that Gyp thought worse than school. He considered
himself a prisoner in school, but _after four_ he was _free_, so that
jail was worse only because one could not get out of jail at all!

"If it's school or jail, I'll go to _school_!" he said.