He made his proposition and began, but there seemed to be some trouble. He was not apt to get confused, but this certainly made hodge-podge.
“Where is that example?” asked the professor.
“There, sir,” said Davis, handing up his slate.
He ran his eye rapidly over it, and returned it.
“That is all right,” he said, “and very well done, and so are all the rest. You must learn to keep what you know a little more at your command, Davis. How many of you have the example?”
How they had managed poor Carter could not imagine, but every hand except his own went up.
“You haven’t it, Carter?”
“No, sir, I couldn’t get it.”
“I shall have to send you down, I’m sorry to say.”
The boys made a great deal more haste than was necessary, he thought, to let him pass down and change places with Davis, adding one or two very expressive winks to remind him that his hope for a star on the record of that term was gone.