Dunstable gets caught out by his house-master and ends up with a set of surplus 'lines'. What to do with them? Why not write more on popular subjects and sell them to other boys? But business is slow ...
| Dunstable | of Day's House |
| the Headmaster | |
| Mr Langridge | a form master |
| Mr Day | a house master |
| Charles J. Linton | of Seymour's |
| Mr Forman | a form master |
| Jackson | of Dexter's |
| Mr Appleby | a house master |
First published January 1905 in Pearson's Magazine (UK).
Later published on 18 November 1922 in The Boy's Friend weekly magazine under the title The Locksley Lines Supplying Trust.
Greek numerals
- a system for representing numbers by letters, similar to the more well-known Roman numerals in concept but more complicated in practice.
The Bacchae
- a tragedy (play) by the ancient Greek writer Euripides.
Impot
- imposition, a penalty or punishment involving work.
Virgil
- Publius Virgilius Maro (70-19 BC), a Roman epic poet, author of the Aenid.
Victor Hugo
- (1802-85) French poet, playwright and novelist, author of Notre-Dame de Paris and Les Misérables among many other works.
Quatre-vingt-treize
- one of the many other works by Victor Hugo (it translates as 93, literally 4x20=80 +13=93).