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How is he to cope with the fiendish ingenuity of the examiners ? How is he to master the contents of a book of Thucydides in a couple of days ? It is a fearsome problem . Perhaps he will get up in the small hours and work by candle light from two till eight o'clock . In this case he will start his day a mental and physical wreck . Perhaps he will try to work and be led away by the love of light reading . In any case he will fail to obtain enough marks to satisfy the examiners , though whether examiners ever are satisfied , except by Harry the hero of the school story -LRB- Every Lad 's Library , uniform edition , 2s 6d -RRB- , is rather a doubtful question .