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The penalty for visiting Stapleton without leave was increased from two hundred lines to two extra lessons . The venomous characteristic of extra lesson was that it cut into one 's football , for the criminal was turned into a form-room from two till four on half-holidays , and so had to scratch all athletic engagements for the day , unless he chose to go for a solitary run afterwards . In the cricket term the effect of this was not so deadly . It was just possible that you might get an innings somewhere after four o'clock , even if only at the nets . But during the football season -- it was now February -- to be in extra lesson meant a total loss of everything that makes life endurable , and the School protested -LRB- to one another , in the privacy of their studies -RRB- with no uncertain voice against this barbarous innovation . The reason for the change had been simple . At the corner of the High Street at Stapleton was a tobacconist 's shop , and Mr Prater , strolling in one evening to renew his stock of Pioneer , was interested to observe P. St H. Harrison , of Merevale 's , purchasing a consignment of ` Girl of my Heart ' cigarettes -LRB- at twopence-halfpenny the packet of twenty , including a coloured picture of Lord Kitchener -RRB- .