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The following case throws some light on this matter, reported in the same pamphlet: "An American family, considered a prize by the agent because of the fact that there were nine children, turned out to be a `flunk. They could not work in the beet-fields, they ran up a bill at the country-store, and one day the father and the eldest son, a boy of nineteen, were seen running through the railroad station to catch an out-going train.
"Miss Wyatt, what do you consider the most serious limitations of our author?" Miss Wyatt blinked once or twice. This question out of its context was not illuminating. It was a part of her philosophy, however, never to flunk flat; she always crawled.
She gave it as her opinion that a man who loved a woman should be willing to go through fire and water to win her. Captain Perez went home that night pondering deeply. "Fire and water!" he mused. "That's a turrible test. But she's a wonderful woman, and would expect it of a feller. I wonder if I could do it; seems 's if I would now, but flesh is weak, and I might flunk, and that would settle it.
You know that your marks came always pretty near the absolute zero." "Jack," cried Ernest in honest indignation, "not the last time. The last time I didn't flunk." "No, because your sonnet on Cartesian geometry roused even the math-fiend to compassion.
"I lost a hundred and ten last week, and I've been broke ever since. Wired home for money, but the gov didn't respond. After that game all I could think of was two pairs, three of a kind, bobtail flushes, and so on. I made a dead flunk at recitations for two days. The evening after I lost my roll I was to attend a swell affair up on Temple Street.
"I am afraid, Joe, that you annoy the class," Miss Wilson said in final desperation. He put the pencil down, closed the knife with a snap, and returned to his blank staring at the blackboard. What did he know about Draco? or Solon? or the rest of the Greeks? It was a flunk, and that was all there was to it.
"It really doesn't matter so much to you," Angela said; "You're none of you going to college, but imagine if I flunk anything." "You can make it up this summer," Lois said. "Yes, and take entrance exams. No, thanks; I'd prefer entering on certificate," Angela drawled. Evelin and Helen came out of the study hall. "Any news yet?" Evelin asked. Betty shook her head.
Do you want me to meet Captain Annersley for you tomorrow?" he switched off to ask. Larry shook his head. "No, I'll meet him myself, thank you. It is my job. I am not going to flunk it. If he is Ruth's husband I am going to be the first to shake hands with him."
The Greek professor was writing something. Carl's ex-room-mate, Plain Smith, was rigid, staring unyieldingly at the platform. Carl hated Smith's sinister stillness. Professor Frazer was finishing his lecture: "If it please you, flunk this course, don't read a single play I assign to you, be disrespectful, disbelieve all my contentions. And I shall still be content.
"It is all very well to talk," grumbled Patience, "but you know just how footless mere talk is. I'm not at all sure that I shall not flunk." "You won't, so don't try to make me believe you will," assured Grace, "and you are going to forget your books and have dinner with me at Vinton's to-morrow night, too." "Am I?" asked Patience. "Let me see. Oh, yes, I am.
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