Name-calling

"Anderton, here!, Archer, here!, Arnold, here!, Baines, here!, Bolton, here!, Cam-bell, here!, Camp-bell..."

Before Campbell got to announce he was 'here', the boy sitting in front, Cambell, called out "queer!" A laugh ricocheted round the class, then a fight ensued between the two boys. It had been the teacher's fault really for stressing the 'camp' in the boy's name to distinguish him from the boy before him. Keeping order at register time was tricky at the best of times in this class of young ruffians.

With bloodied noses, the boys eventually stopped.

"Bell-ends!" declared the teacher, angrily.