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Mr. Carter's first meeting with Jennings was the routine affair of a busy master who saw in front of him a small boy, not unlike the dozens of other small boys who were lined up outside his room. So Mr. Carter learned little from this first meeting. Later on he was to learn a lot, for Jennings' arrival at Linbury Court School as a very "new boy" was going to have breath-taking and sometimes uncomfortable repercussions for both masters and puplils. Well-meaning if somewhat impetuous, Jennings, with his over-developed initiative, and aided and abetted by that other new "new boy", the mild , short-sighted but erudite Darbishire, has more than a little difficulty in keeping out of trouble...

First published in 1950 by Collins