Some of the bigger boys in the back seats, cherishing pleasant memories of the "fun" they had under Miss Seabury's easy-going rule, attempted to repeat their performances of the previous term.

But the very first "spitball" which spattered upon the blackboard proved a disastrous missile for its thrower.
"She made him clean the board," proclaimed Bos'n, big-eyed and awestruck, "and then he had to stand in the corner.

He was Bennie Edwards, and he's most thirteen.

Miss Seabury, they said, couldn't do anything with him, but teacher said 'Go,' as quiet as could be and just looked at him, and he went.

And he's most as tall as she is.