`Now, Crawley, you have heard what I said, and you can just return to the class-room and tell your companions that I shall come down in half an hour, and I intend to have the truth about that boat if I have to keep every boy in the school under punishment for the next month;' so here I am." "Oh, stop that, Crawley," said a bright, handsome lad, who was standing on the table so as to get a better view of the proceedings.

"The Doctor's not often in a wax, and it's no joke when he is.

I didn't think there was a fellow in the school would have touched the boat after what he said last time." All the boys hurled themselves at the table from which Haggart had been giving out his opinions, and there was a general shout of: "No!" "It _must_ be all right," said Haggart again.

He was looking carelessly round, and he suddenly caught sight of a frightened face a long way beneath him.

"Don't be in such a funk, Harry," he said good-humouredly.
"It will all come right in the end! The Doctor's awfully hard sometimes, but he's always just--eh, Crawley ?" "He canes you first, and he's just afterwards," said Crawley grimly.
The little boy shivered, and, when he tried to speak, his teeth chattered.