All it needed was some new wattling and turf on the roof.

Wattling had tagged on, plastered up as he was, and Hilary included him in.

With a groan Wattling got out of bed, and then danced cheekily into the bathroom.

Not ten seconds after it had disappeared into a crack in the wattling beside the door, the great gong boomed.

Wattling turned uncertainly to the table, took up cautiously the pile of saucers, and started with them waveringly to the sink.

'And the Grower went back to get herself another cup of coffee,' said Wattling, 'though we were supposed to do that.'

'I say, Wattling can't find the saucers.

Wattling, for example.

'Was it lying on top of Wattling's flannel?'

Wattling, bring me those saucers there.'

'Good old Wattling.

'You haven't washed your face, Wattling,' said Toby.

When he dashed into the bathroom Wattling's face was covered with blood, pouring from a gash that stretched from eye to chin.

'Well, I shouldn't let Wattling play,' continued Toby hurriedly.

That was Wattling's flannel, and Pickerage knew he just chucked it at his face every night.'

When Wattling carved up his face, the head wanted to hand him over to Mrs C., without calling the doctor in.'

'Ugh, what beastly muck,' Wattling had said.

'Try again, Wattling.

'You can't walk straight, Wattling.'

'He's a spiteful bugger,' said Wattling.

'I say, I say, I say,' shouted Wattling in response, switching to his music hall routine.

'Kindly inspect your flannel, Wattling, in case your hidden enemy has concealed a Samurai sword in it.

Ghoulish tales were told, by the boarders in every class, of the hideous pools of blood on the bathroom floor, of Wattling's terrified and ghastly aspect.

'So if Tomkiss and Wattling feel impelled to express their artistic bent in any form of.metalwork, it will have to be, I fear, in their own time, and at their parents' expense.

The most practical means of achieving this would be to partially construct the wall panels on the ground with the uprights and horizontals pegged together; the wattling would then be inserted and finally the wall plate.