Er kam ein bißchen spät nach Haus, und indem er behutsam in das Fenster kletterte, entdeckte er einen Hinterhalt in Gestalt seiner Tante; und als _sie_ den Zustand seiner Kleider sah, war ihr Entschluß unumstößlich gefaßt, ihn am Samstag in strenge Haft zu nehmen und ordentlich schwitzen zu lassen.
He got home pretty late that night, and when he climbed cautiously in at the window, he uncovered an ambuscade, in the person of his aunt; and when she saw the state his clothes were in her resolution to turn his Saturday holiday into captivity at hard labor became adamantine in its firmness.