I got flurried; I could not find the place, or, when I found the place in the _Caesar_, I lost it in the "crib." The master, to add to my misery, was cross, and began proceedings by ordering Evans to learn twenty lines for laughing in school-time.

I glanced at the fellows round me.

Some were taking a last peep at their books.

Others, with bright and confident faces, waited quietly for the lesson to begin.

No one that I could see was as badly off as I.