He ran his eye over his text-books.

The history examination came the first thing in the morning, so he would begin on that.

He opened the book where a page was turned down, and began to read: Shortly after the Draconian reforms, a war broke out between Athens and Megara respecting the island of Salamis, to which both cities laid claim.
That was easy; but what were the Draconian reforms?
He must look them up.
He felt quite studious as he ran over the back pages, till he chanced to raise his eyes above the top of the book and saw on a chair a baseball mask and a catcher's glove.

They should n't have lost that game last Saturday, he thought, and they would n't have, either, if it had n't been for Fred.

He wished Fred would n't fumble so.