chronometer [a very accurate naval clock] and some gas mask ends. S some uniform buttons. Lucky devils! zar
Tuesday 20th
… Mr. R. drove us [three boys] and Mr. D’Aeth [a very nice Biology master who had been in a car accident a few days previously] to Cromer. … He [Mr. D] was going to the hospital to have his foot X-rayed as it was bruised. When we were there we saw the X-ray apparatus and the Iron Lung. This was very simple indeed, being just a 3-ply wooden box with an airtight joint at [i.e. collar round] the patient’s neck and an electric pump working a pair of bellows. We talked a lot on the way to and fro, Mr. R. is nicer than I thought and Mr. D’Aeth is just ‘wizard’. … zac zmq zmh
Wednesday 21st
… I bought a rubber at the school shop, and when I got back I found studies 1 and 3 besieging our study. Of course the odious boy M was the chief offender. I managed to squeeze in, and we held out until tea with Wood, P, F and myself, plus B for a time until tea. zmb zfg
After tea we had S, but they had captured F and B and were bullying them in Study number 3. Frank [housemaster] came along just at the right moment and blew M up, though not quite as well as he deserved. Last night the Pink [dormitory] was attacked, they bagged F’s slippers and a hairbrush and a clothes brush. … zmb zfg zsd
Thursday 22nd
… After breakfast studies 2 and 3 united against study 1, which was much funnier from our point of view. While they were wedging the door shut with a sledge runner, S and I bent the end outside the door up, so they couldn’t pull it back. Mr. Spencer arrived quite soon and we stopped. zmb zfg zsd
In the evening I found their door handle loose and ‘borrowed’ it. I gave it back later, whereupon M made a loud remark for Mr. Spencer, who was along the passage, about taking other people’s door handles, and zmb zsd
