text:  Above all he counselled the urchins to stand firm the next time that John sent an usher down to that quarter and vehemently to protest for the doctrine of election as to their own usher and reprobation as to the Squire's; assuring them that provided they took his advice and followed the plan which he would afterwards impart to them in confidence at the proper time he could almost take it upon himself to say that in a short time no tyrannical usher or cast-off tutor of the Squire should venture to show his face with or without tawse or ferule within the boundaries of North Farm