Once the president failed to appear at the expected corner.

Paul feared that he might be doubling on him and so crept cautiously on all fours back to the corner he had left to take a look around that side of the building.

As he warily put his head out to take the observation it came in hard contact with that of the president, who had adopted Paul's own tactics to catch him.

The situation was so ludicrous that even that austere gentlemen burst out laughing and Paul scampered away to the chapel.
A favorite resort for the boys during winter weather was a barn where they had rare sport tumbling over the great quantities of hay in the loft.

A party of them were one day enjoying this pastime, when a stern voice below commanded them to "descend immediately," supplemented by the ominous and oft repeated expression, "I know you all, I, have your names." Some of the boys descended, but Paul and four companions clambered out on the roof of a wagon shed.