apple-pie bed

“Come along quickly, or you will have an apple-pie bed made,” he said, in a low voice.

He was a Parisian, a former street arab, and I suspected him of having prepared an apple-pie bed in order to have a laugh at me.

Fortunately, however, I have a very good answer to this apple-pie bed charge.

Listen again to one Montagu, a sixth-form boy who has caught a gang of dormitory roysterers preparing an apple-pie bed for him.

Apple-pie Bed, a trick played at schools on new comers, or on any boy disliked by the rest.