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When he came back to the schoolhouse, his mind was made up.

He simply would not work his arithmetic problems when the teacher held his class.

That should do it, he thought, because Miss Langford had said she was going to be strict about school work.

He had considered throwing erasers or flipping paperwads at someone or pulling the hair of the girl sitting in front of him, but he couldn't take a chance on either of these possibilities: the teacher probably would make him stand face-to-wall in a corner instead of stay in after school.