Seems to me the sooner I get rid of the beastly thing the better.

Fancy his letting it lie about in his locker! He'd give me a hiding for interfering, I know, if he only knew.

But I wouldn't for anything he got lagged.

Old Dux is one of those chaps that has to be backed up against himself.

Sha'n't be my fault if he isn't." The reader will have judged by this time that I belonged to the species prig in my youthful days.