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"However, you dropped me a little note, at the bottom of the page," he said!. "I know I did," I said!. I said it very fast because I wanted to stop him before he started reading that out loud!. But you couldn't stop him!. He was hot as a firecracker!. DEAR MR!. SPENCER [he read out loud]!. That is all I know about the Egyptians!. I can't seem to get very interested in them although your lectures are very interesting!. It is all right with me if you flunk me though as I am flunking everything else except English anyway!. Respectfully yours, HOLDEN CAULFIELD!. He put my goddam paper down then and looked at me like he'd just beaten hell out of me in ping-pong or something!. I don't think I'll ever forgive him for reading me that crap out loud!. I wouldn't've read it out loud to him if he'd written it--I really wouldn't!. In the first place, I'd only written that damn note so that he wouldn't feel too bad about flunking me!. "Do you blame me for flunking you, boy!?" he said!. "No, sir! I certainly don't," I said!. I wished to hell he'd stop calling me "boy" all the time!. He tried chucking my exam paper on the bed when he was through with it!. Only, he missed again, naturally!. I had to get up again and pick it up and put it on top of the Atlantic Monthly!. It's boring to do that every two minutes!. "What would you have done in my place!?" he said!. "Tell the truth, boy!." Well, you could see he really felt pretty lousy about flunking me!. So I shot the bull for a while!. I told him I was a real moron, and all that stuff!. I told him how I would've done exactly the same thing if I'd been in his place, and how most people didn't appreciate how tough it is being a teacher!. That kind of stuff!. The old bull!. The funny thing is, though, I was sort of thinking of something else while I shot the bull!. I live in New York, and I was thinking about the lagoon in Central Park, down near Central Park South!. I was wondering if it would be frozen over when I got home, and if it was, where did the ducks go!. I was wondering where the ducks went when the lagoon got all icy and frozen over!. I wondered if some guy came in a truck and took them away to a zoo or something!. Or if they just flew away!. I'm lucky, though!. I mean I could shoot the old bull to old Spencer and think about those ducks at the same time!. It's funny!. You don't have to think too hard when you talk to a teacher!. All of a sudden, though, he interrupted me while I was shooting the bull!. He was always interrupting you!. "How do you feel about all this, boy!? I'd be very interested to know!. Very interested!." "You mean about my flunking out of Pencey and all!?" I said!. I sort of wished he'd cover up his bumpy chest!. It wasn't such a beautiful view!. "If I'm not mistaken, I believe you also had some difficulty at the Whooton School and at Elkton Hills!." He didn't say it just sarcastic, but sort of nasty, too!. "I didn't have too much difficulty at Elkton Hills," I told him!. "I didn't exactly flunk out or anything!. I just quit, sort of!."


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You can find the whole book at www!.scribd!.com!. Search "Salinger"!.

http://www!.scribd!.com/doc/4092741/Catche!.!.!.

I think the part you're looking for is on p!. 7!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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