I hated the stuffy malodorous classrooms, with their whistling gas-jets and noise of inharmonious life.

The box-room (where such functions usually took place) being at this time in a state of indescribable uproar, it was decided that the banquet should be served in one of the remote classrooms.

You make me sickyou m-m-make m-m-me" The big bell rang out its single deep brazen note for the formation of lines, and the habit of unquestioning, instant obedience to its voice sent the children all scurrying to their places, from which they marched forward to their respective classrooms in their usual convict silence.

I hated the stuffy malodorous classrooms, with their whistling gas-jets and noise of inharmonious life.

The forms passed on in their usual order, and the new boys were conducted to a vacant classroom, where they received a set of examination papers which were intended to test the amount of their knowledge, and determine the position in which they were to start work on the following day.