I'm head boy, and I've got to see you do it.

Look sharp, or he'll be here in a minute, and there'll be a row." Diggory, Vance, and Mugford hastily signed their names, one under the other, upon the slate.

There was a good deal of tittering while they did so; but as a new boy is laughed at for nearly everything he does, they took no notice of it, and had hardly got back to their places when the master entered the room, and the work began in earnest.
About a quarter of an hour later the boys were busy with a Latin exercise, when silence was broken by a shuffle and an exclamation from the back desk.

"You again, Maxton," said the master, looking up with a frown.

"I suppose you are determined to idle away your time and remain bottom of the class this term as you were last.