The effectiveness of a speech tags is more often related to how you used it rather than what type of speech tag it is
It is used to alert the readers about a sentence that is directly spoken
hope this helps
I think it would be 'After drumming on his desk, Stewart was disciplined by Mrs. Hobson for distracting students from their exams.'
The Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle series is about a small woman who lives in an upside-down house in a lively neighborhood inhabited mainly by children who have bad habits. Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle has a chest full of magical cures left to her by her deceased husband, Mr. Piggle-Wiggle, who was a pirate.