"Behold! A CHILD, Mr Tusker!" I cried ...

[message from the school caretaker to headmaster] "That Mrs Foxberrow is messing up the furniture being the door and doorpost used for pulling out nibs."

[from Headmaster's journal:]

Visited Miss Foxberrow's classroom to give her the patent pen-nib extractor left behind for demonstration by a publisher's representative. ... she replied airily, "Since I read a piece in last week's "Times Ed.", we don't use pens; they cripple young children's conceptual flow."

Slope (senior) slid into my room, a pale cunning looking man with three ball-point pens in his breast pocket and an R.A.F. tie.