Bunter the Bad Lad

Horace Coker had only himself to blame, for a Fifth-former ought to know better than to leave a limerick about his form master lying in the quad. Bunter found it, but even then, everything might have been all right if Coker hadn't smacked the fellow's head.

Beneath the thick Bunter skull on which the blow fell, there lurked a scheme for revenge which, inevitably, was closely concerned with a larger and softer part of his anatomy – namely his stomach. The cunning Owl of the Remove handed the limerick to Mr. Quelch in an envelope for safe keeping, and there opened up before the villain a never-ending vista of tuck, supplied by a blackmailed and fearful Coker.

Although the desperate attempts made by the unhappy Horace to recover his limerick meet with little success, such greed must eventually receive its just reward, and the Famous Five, unexpectedly aided by the works of that great poet Quintus Horatius Flaccus, brought the retribution due to the wicked upon the head and trousers of William George Bunter.