It wasn't only that they couldn't run riot, and make Templeton a bear-garden.

That was bad enough.

But in addition to that, they had to fag for the Sixth, and after a week or two of liberty the return to servitude is always painful.
"You kids," said Raggles, two days after the return of the Sixth, "mind you show up at Den after Elections this evening." "What is Den, and who are Elections ?" asked Dick.
"What, don't you know?
Awful green lot of new kids you are.

Elections is after tea in the hall, and Den's directly after that." Raggles was very much affronted, when, after this lucid explanation, Dick again enquired-- "What do you mean by Den and Elections ?" "Look here, what a howling idiot you must be if you've got to be told half a dozen times.

I'll spell it for you if you like." "All serene," said Heathcote.