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When the space-craze sweeps through Linbury Court School, the corridors reverberate to a crescendo of 'voom-voom' noises, as rockets, piloted by "Butch Breakaway" Jennings, and his "bald-headed scientist," Darbishire, take off for the moon.
Mr. Carter prphesies that the craze will wear off, and so it does - but not before Jennings has stuck his head into trouble; nor before he and Darbishire have helped General Merridew, that peppery but most distinguished of Old Boys, to recapture some of the wilder moments of his lost boyhood, to a clarion accompaniment of bells.
Mr. Wilkins too, does his unwilling share of "ringing out wild bells", and he has never yet discovered the real reason behind Jennings' and Darbishire's insistence that boxing-gloves and frogs'-feet are unremarkable sleeping gear...

1 - The March of Progress
2 - Attention All Space Shipping
3 - Prisoner in the Library
4 - An Old Boy Remembers
5 - Mr. Wilkins Rings the Bell
6 - Indoor Cricket
7 - Distinguished Company
8 - Autograph for Darbishire
9 - Token of Thanks
10 - Jennings Jumps to Conclusions
11 - Darbishire's Secret
12 - Troubled Waters
13 - Decorations in the Dark
14 - Ring Out, Wild Bells
15 - Darbishire Takes the Plunge
16 - Farewell to the Gift