Boys Will Be Boys

Alec Smart who is engaged teaching in a prison applies for the job of headmaster at a nearby public school to replace the previous headmaster who has been convicted of writing forged cheques and has just been sent to prison Smart appeals to the Governor to write him a good reference which he pretends to Afterwards he writes his real recommendation which is very negative about Smarts talents The trustee who works as the Governors secretary Faker Brown accidentally gets the two letters mixed up and delivers the one praising Smart On the basis of the letter Lady Dorking the who runs the Board of Governors appoints Smart to the job This angers her deputy Colonel Crableigh who had favoured promoting his nephew the Deputy head