Professor: “That impertinent fellow, Sustorf, must be reported.” Pupil: “Herr Professor, his name is not Sustorf; it is Thomas.” Professor: “Well, then, we will not report him.”
It must strike four soon, for it struck a quarter-to half-an-hour ago.
I see a great many pupils who are absent.
If any of you would like to read up this subject, you will find something to the point in a book the title of which I have forgotten. It is in the forty-second chapter.
“WITH A SINGLE BOUND HE WAS OUTSIDE THE DOOR.”
THE INCARCERATION OF THE HERR PROFESSOR.
WHEN he got to the hall before the door of the schoolroom, the Herr Director heard a tremendous uproar. Forty boyish voices were shouting “Encore,” and “Da capo!”
Professor Samuel Heinzerling began to frown.
Now there was a lull in the wild chorus, and a clear, penetrating voice was heard in a tone of absurd magniloquence—