Billy Bunter's Benefit

Billy Bunter, the Owl of the Remove was not able to go cycling. For, with the selfishness to which he was sadly accustomed, his battered and unusable old one had not been repaired by any other Removite, though he had mentioned the matter more than once. There was, of course, the difficulty of finding the purchase money, but eventually Bunter evolved the tremendous scheme of ordering the bike and sending the bill to his father. Unfortunately, the latter did not approve, and the bill rebounded.

Bunter's frantic efforts to find the sum necessary to pay Parker's Cycle Stores – including entering for the Latin prize and following the sport of kings – make this one of the funniest stories yet in this much-beloved series.

An additional source of joy concerns the two rival productions of "Hamlet", under the able direction of William Wibley of the Remove, and the not nearly so able direction of that indefatigable busybody, Coker of the Fifth.

The reader is warned to take this book to a place where his peals of laughter will not excite public attention.