He put on his hat and left the house.

He walked over to the Academy, and being shown to the office of the principal, he informed him of the depredations committed in his garden.
"Who did it, Mr.Lowington ?" demanded the principal, with proper indignation in his tones and his looks.
"Shuffles." "I need not have asked.

That boy gives me more trouble than all the others put together," added Mr.Baird, with an anxious expression.

"And yet what can I do with him ?" "Expel him," replied Mr.Lowington, laconically.
"I don't like to do that." "Why not ?" "It would be an injury to me." "Why so ?" "It would offend his father, who is a person of wealth and influence.
When Shuffles came to Brockway ten other boys came with him.

He was expelled from another institution, which so incensed his father that he induced the parents of ten others to take their sons out, and send them to me.