El mestre, hom greu i ancia, va intervenir-hi; després gira l'esquena un moment, i Tom estira els cabells d'un noi del banc veí, i estava tot absort llegint son llibre quan el noi va girar-se.
The teacher, a grave, elderly man, interfered; then turned his back a moment and Tom pulled a boy's hair in the next bench, and was absorbed in his book when the boy turned around; stuck a pin in another boy, presently, in order to hear him say "Ouch!" and got a new reprimand from his teacher.