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"A maxim straight from the copybook! Suppose I CANNOT comport myself with dignity.

After some ineffectual remonstrance I kept away from him, staying in a room--evidently a children's schoolroom--containing globes, forms, and copybooks. When he followed me thither, I went to a box room at the top of the house and, in order to be alone with my aching miseries, locked myself in.

"I keep turning over new leaves, and spoiling them, as I used to spoil my copybooks, and I make so many beginnings there never will be an end," he said dolefully.

To follow Tarzan's strange system of spelling would be laborious as well as futile, and so we shall in the future, as we have in the past, adhere to the more familiar forms of our grammar school copybooks. It would tire you to remember that DO meant b, TU o, and RO y, and that to say he-boy you must prefix the ape masculine gender sound BU before the entire word and the feminine gender sound MU before each of the lower-case letters which go to make up boy--it would tire you and it would bring me to the nineteenth hole several strokes under par.

His schoolhouse was a low building of one large room, rudely constructed of logs; the windows partly glazed, and partly patched with leaves of old copybooks. It was most ingeniously secured at vacant hours, by a *withe twisted in the handle of the door, and stakes set against the window shutters; so that though a thief might get in with perfect ease, he would find some embarrassment in getting out, --an idea most probably borrowed by the architect, Yost Van Houten, from the mystery of an eelpot.

Nine days later he went off the 1-3 favourite for a similar event at Cheltenham, but blotted his copybook by clouting the first and unseating Ruby Walsh.

There's nothing fancy about this street fighter and Kieren Fallon gave him a copybook ride to win at Epsom.

I'VE always thought of myself as a professional drinker who occasionally blots his copybook by going on a journalistic binge.

However, Magee then blotted his copybook in many people's eyes when refusing to defend that title against late stand-in Brian Barbosa in Liverpool 14 months ago.

HAVING regularly showcased his talents in smaller events, Moloney grasped this big chance with a copybook display.

Showed some nice touches but blotted his copybook when he scythed down Kevin Lisbie on the hour.

Marquez proved his ability to the world when he drew with Manny Pacquiao in 2004, but blotted his copybook when losing a controversial points decision to Chris John earlier this year.