Billy Bunter Butts In

If Billy Bunter had not been so lazy, and had written out his hundred lines, Harry Wharton would never have been landed in the perilous chain of events which followed.

Wharton was Head Boy of the Remove, and well liked, but he had a streak of obstinacy and temper, which stood him in bad stead on occasion. When he was out of the dormitory one night, determined to take his revenge on George Wingate, the school captain, for what Harry Wharton considered a raw deal, Wingate was stunned by a blow and Wharton was up for expulsion.

The Headmaster suspended judgment, rather to the surprise of the rest of the school, who felt certain that Wharton's version of the affair was a downright lie. Mr. Quelch did not believe him, Wingate decidedly did not, and the entire school buzzed with talk about him. Wharton himself fell out with his closest pals, the other members of the Famous Five, while the remaining fellows of the Remove were almost solidly divided against their Head Boy. Everything looked black for Wharton, scorned, taunted and cold-shouldered as he was, with just one friend in the school who stuck wholeheartedly by him. It was Bunter with his tuck-raiding exploits who discovered the real facts, but not before many further exciting episodes take place in this unusual and very gripping story of Greyfriars, which is sure to please all readers.