The White Feather

go is

ned to Clowes of the manner in which his house-master treated him, and Clowes had remarked in his melancholy way that it was n

y how Jackson fel

arable on the day after Sheen

er-in whose form he was-over a matter of unprepared Livy. As a matter of fact, Jackson had prepared the Livy. Or, rather, he had not absolutely prepared it; but he had meant to. But it was Mr Templar's preparation, and Mr Templar was short-sighted. Any one will understand, therefore, that it would have been simply chucking away the g

e-Two hund

lass of water. Pure accident, of course, but th

r had ca

cl

a

ad gi

had better be ca

"Two hundred l

fine, free game during afternoon school, and Mr Dexter, who objected to fine, free games-or, indeed, an

eld cheering the house-team on to victory against the School House, Jackson sat

his task, entered Painter, with the news that Dexter's had

tic Painter. "Made rings round them. Haven't y

n?" asked

g to have a

e it

se kids are awfully sick about the match, and c

know which end of the oar to shove into the water

n lick you, and I said I betted he couldn't, and he said all right, then, let's try, and then the othe

"tomorrow evening." He had said it very loud and clear. Still, in a case like this.... After all, by helping

o," said

he enemy were already afloat wh

ied the Schoo

om for two on each seat. Jackson shared the

Tomlin from t

aid Jackson. "Wh

island just below the bridge,-the island with the croq

ing. You pull the right line if you want to go to th

injured Crowle. "As

dy could tell by looking at you that you knew

'Three,'"

tain that Jackson and his men led from the start. Pulling a good, splashing stroke which had drenched Crowle to the skin in the first thirty yards, Dexter's boat crept slowly ahead. By the t

finished,"

rab, and the School House drew level agai

erted into submarines, and the rival coxswains were observing bitterly to space that this was jolly well the last time they ever let t

m like a fountain could prevent Crowle from seeing that they were mann

hard on his right line. "Stop rowin

rsmen ceased pulling. The two boats ca

, crimson from his exertion

parleying w

p out of the way? Spoiling our

that short space of time. A miscreant, larger than the commo

them!"

lub, to which the entrance fee was a screw of tobacco, and the subscription an occasional remark upon the weather. Here gathered together day by day that section of the populace which resented it when they "asked for employment, and only got work instead". From morn till eve they lounged again

nting thereon. It was these comments that attracted Mr Dexter's attention. When, cycling across the bridge, he found the south side of it entirely congested, and heard raucous voices urging certain

Dexter Argo. No sooner was it within distance than Jackson, dropping his oar, grasped the side and pulled it towards him. The two boats crashed together and

d drifting sluggishly down towards the island, wh

reme: and it was soon speedily evident that swimming was also part of the Judy curriculum, for the shipwrecked ones were soon

t, and the combatants parted without further hostiliti

is bicycle again, rode ho

eld a reception. Among distinguished visitors wer

nless he was a prefect, would be allowed till further notice to cross the town bridge. As regarded the river, for the future boating Wrykinians must confine their attentions to the lower river. Nobody

an. He thought before he put his foot down

hat made it necessary for him to choose between breaking school rules of the most important kind, or pullin

. But he had nobody with whom he could talk o

hinking it out, and by nightfa

it, he must keep his appointment with Joe Bevan. It would mean going to

uld have