"I move those last h's be laid on the table," said Maverick; and this was done.
"Past participles," Egghorn now wrote on the blackboard. "Termination ed to be changed to t; for instance, blest, exprest, dro——"
"What are you going to do with rest?" interrupted Totts.
"And test?" said some one down the table.
"And nest?" another called out.
"Can't you let him finish?" said Cottsill. And Egghorn continued, "Dropt, stopt, spilt, kilt, and so forth."
("Kilt!" whispered Miss Appleby. "Oh, dear!")
"Rattlet instead of rattled will look funny," observed some one.
"So will mart and wart," remarked Willows, "instead of marred and warred."
"If you have rattlet and mart and wart," yelled Totts, "I'll resign right now, right now, right now!"