"But Coates says he's not far enough up in the school." "All bosh," said Tipper.

"What difference does it make if a fellow's first or twentieth in the school, as long as he's cock of everything outside! I don't see how the doctor can hesitate a moment between the two." This was the conclusion come to at almost all the conclaves which met together during the day to discuss the burning question.

It was the conclusion moreover to which Bloomfield himself came as he talked the matter over with a few of his friends after third school.
"You see," said he, "it's not that I care about the thing for its own sake.

It would be a precious grind, I know, to have to be responsible for everything that goes on, and to have to lick all the kids that want a hiding.

But for all that, I'd sooner do it than let the school run down." "What I hope," said some one, "is that even if Paddy doesn't see it himself, Riddell will, and will have the sense to back out of it.