Mike

wn like a volcanic eruption and provide old boys with something to talk abo

ig drop. The next moment the thing has begun, and you are standing in a shower-bath. It is just the same with a row.

e included in a letter which Mike wrote to his fathe

as the

esterday one of the men put down for the second against the O.W.'s second couldn't play because his father was very ill, so I played. Wasn't it luck? It's the first time I've played for the second. I didn't do much, because I didn't get an innings. They stop the cricket on O.W. matches day because they have a lot of rotten Greek plays and things which take up a frightful time, and half the chaps are acting, so we stop

There's a dinner after the matches on O.W. day, and some of the chaps were going back to their houses after it when they got into a row with a lot of brickies from the town, and there was rather a row.

lovi

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couldn't send me five bob,

would do, only I'd r

ope, these words: "Or a bob w

rtain details of some importance which had not come to his notice

hool choir, were entertained by the headmaster to supper in the Great Hall. The banquet, lengthened by speeches, songs, and recitations which the reciters imagined to be songs, lasted, as a rule, till about ten o

om for generations back, for the diners to trudge off to this lamp-post, dance round it for some minutes singing the school song or whatever happened to be the popular song of t

re were

actical rowdyism and never except with the school. As a rule, they amused themselves by shouting rude chaff. The school regarded them with a lofty contempt, much as an Oxford man regards the townee. The school was always anxious for a row, but it was the unwritten law that only in special circumstances should they proceed to active

viality, one's views are apt to alter. Risks which be

served and criticised by an equal number of townees, and that the criticisms were, as usual, essentially candid and personal, they found themselves forg

a purely verbal form of attack, all might y

matoes

for any length of time without feeling that if the thing goes

he first tomato was enou

the dim and mysterious rays of the lamp, it suddenly whizze

t his handkerchief and wiped his face, over w

g," he said quietly. "My idea of a good after-dinner game

o box to a certain extent. But, at any rate at first, it was no time for science. To be scientific one must have an opponent who observes at least the more important rules of the ring. It is impossible to do the latest ducks and hooks taught you by the inst

They were smarting under a sense of injury, and there is nothing that adds a force to one

led the school with a vigour that could not be resisted. He very

concealed the town. Barely a dozen remained. And their lonely condition seemed to be borne in upon

remained, tackled low by Wyatt and Clowe

ere it had started. By the side of the road at this point was a green, depressed looking pond. Gloomy in the daytime, it looked unspeakable

'em in ther

. A move was made towards the pond, and the procession ha

t said, "what

m was standing surveying them with t

s all

right,"

, is it? W

e prisone

, Mr. Butt. They're a-goin

ce. "Ho, are they? Come now, young gentleman, a la

when feeling particularly savage. "We're the Strong Right Arm of

u are," said Mr. Butt, understanding but d

said Wyatt. "You run along on your

H

em in, y

From M

om prisoner

the first of the captives into the depths. He ploug

d to the ot

swallow more than you can help, or you'll go getting typhoid. I expect there are leeches a

ned to assert himself even at the eleventh hour, sprang forward, and seized the captive by the arm. A drowning man will clu

d. As he came within reach he attached himself to hi

made the peaceful night hideous. A howl from the townee, a yell from the policeman, a cheer from the launching party, a frighten

maelstrom; and then two streaming f

consternation. It was no oc

ng the water from itself on the other side of the pond