"Green, Gay, and Hammond, go to the board. Take your books."
Snorky went hastily and clumsily, waiting as a gambler waits for his chance.
"Gay, decline hic, hæc, hoc; Green, write out the gerundive forms of all the verbs in the first paragraph top of page 163."
Snorky gazed helplessly at the chronicles of Æneas, and then blankly at the inexorable blackboard, where so many gerundives had not been inscribed.
He drew his name in lagging letters exactly midway, at the top, with a symmetrical space above.
R. B. GREEN
Then he searched anxiously for the gerundives that lurked somewhere in the first paragraph, top of page 163. Then returning to the board he rubbed out the name with little reluctant dabs and wrote
ROGER B. GREEN
Abandoning the chase for gerundives, he stood off a few feet and surveyed his labours on the blackboard, frowned, erased it and wrote dashingly,
ROGER BALLINGTON GREEN