I may have found an in-joke...

[jodel at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 55768


Eric Oppen tells us;
<< One of his form-mates, though, is a George _Bulstrode._  I wonder if that 
might have somehow stuck in Our Author's mindwhen she was creating the 
stories?  >>

It gets better. There was a series of *girls* school stories about Billy's 
sister, Bessie Bunter. Being  Yank I never saw these, but what's the bets 
that most of the boys of the first series had sisters?

-JOdel