Sentimental Tommy by James Matthew Barrie

Bursary examination time had come, and to the siege of Aberdeen marched a hungry half-dozen -- three of them from Thrums, two from the Glenuharity school. The sixth was Tod Lindertis, a ploughman from the Dubb of Prosen, his place of study the bothy after lousing time (Do you hear the klink of quoits? ) or a one-roomed house near it, his tutor a dogged little woman, who knew not the accusative from the dative, but never tired of holding the book while Tod recited. Him someone greets with the good-natured jeer, "It's your fourth try, is it no, Tod? " and he answers cheerily, "It is, my lathie, and I'll keep kick, kick, kicking away to the _n_th time."

"Which means till the door flies open," says the dogged little woman, who is the gallant Tod's no less gallant wife, and already the mother of two. I hope Tod will succeed this time.