Either course would make you tremendously unpopular.

The people of Gridley would say that you were lacking in---era sense of humor." "Sense of humor ?" raged the principal, getting up and pacing the floor.

"Is it humorous to have a lot of young rascals running all over one's authority ?" "Certainly not," responded Mr.Gadsby.

"You should---er---preserve discipline." "How am I to preserve discipline, if I can't inflict punishments ?" insisted Mr.Cantwell.
"But you should---er---that is---my dear Cantwell, you should make the punishments merely fit the crimes." "In such an outrageous case as to-day's," fumed the principal, "what course would have been taken by the Dr.Thornton whom you are so fond of holding up to me as a man who knew how to handle boys ?" "Dr.Thornton," responded Mr.Gadsby, "would have been ingenious in his punishment.

How long were the boys out, over recess time ?" "Twenty-five minutes." "Then," returned Mr.Gadsby, "I can quite see Dr.Thorton informing the young men that they would be expected to remain at least five times as long after school as they had been improperly away from it.