Answer: wants to stop the boys from having fun at his expense
Explanation: The narrator hated that the other boys were so absorbed and interested in his proceedings with the shop girl. The narrator wished that the boys were in Jericho. The narrator told the shop girl that he will put the other glove on in the street, indicating that he wants to leave her shop to escape those boys, which will stop them from having fun at his expense.
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Pyrite is sometimes called Fool's Gold, due to its deceiving looks.
Look off a friend, or google the book?
Protagonist
The protagonist or the main
character is the one who makes the series of events (plot) possible and/or that
these events center on him. His traits, decisions and fate often show the theme
or the message of the story. There are even stories where the main character’s
name symbolize or suggest the underlying idea of the story.
