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Jennings and Darbishire, now in their third term at Linbury Court School, have succeeded in getting permission for the boys to occupy their leisure time in hut-building in a remote and rather marshy part of the school grounds. Admittedly, the "sorry-looking shanties of twig and bull-rush" which result from this supposedly constructive form of out-of-school activity are not up to the Headmaster's exspectations, but the pride of the hut-dwellers themselves is unbounded.
For Jennings and Darbishire the term runs its uneasy course; its tranquillity disturbed by minor or major upsets of a sort which commonly befalls them - from the mis-adventure with Bromo's goldfish, Elmer, to the disaster with the Headmaster's cucumber frame...

First published in 1951 by Collins