Acton's Feud: A Public School Story

o have free and undisputed possession of the concert-room. Corker made it a rule that the captain of the school s

elling me that Corker had given the customary consent, I strolled about looking up a cohort of monitors to help me in ma

rom their shouting in the speech-room, held a meeting in th

Grim to the cha

th alacrity "Somebody second th

aid cheerfully, "Carried nem. con. That's the way to commence biz. Now, you fellows, I th

. "You know jolly well you

Sorry your Roman nose is out of joint; but nobod

r, h

nner. It must go with a bang from start to finish. It must lick every other fag's concer

re joys,'

e joys,' y

ad, Grim; you said

d man, never mi

our concert?

ppen to have a programme of that awful p

ffen's ornaments. "Did you think

get yours, Ro

ack with the year-old prog

n," said Grim, with intense scorn, "those unspea

etter-eh, you fel

they all

hat we lead off with an epilogu

ear!" sa

cond that?

aid Rogers,

you ass," sai

rriedly, "and you needn't b

off with an epilogue. Item number one on the programme to be

is an epilogue, any

young ignoramus this way. Lamb, do you mean

I d

ellow in Biffen's not know what an epilogue is! Te

," said Cherr

, in a wax, but with great re

s concert starts with

now,

d, but he did not appear absolu

"Fruity will see to t

hins, for he did not exactly thirst for that honour. "I'm an ass," he said to hims

a poem on 'Cock House' for numb

it's alwa

-thereupon every fag proposed his chiefest enemy, and the battles raged along the line. "And

, dusting himself. "He does no

rs. "He has long hair. Poe

icially. "Those who are in favour of Sharp

side too, Grim

! Sharpe, you'll h

e work," said Sharpe, disconsolately

ere? What abo

pe c

iff

ffi

d some one gently led him out-eve

ntlemen, I direct your attention to number three-C

going to copy Corker's, anyhow. Let'

es the something else," s

they ask the niggers to do something on the bars, and Sharpe seconded it, so the dervishes were written

now, and except for Fruity's epilogue there isn't any music d

on?" asked half a

ird,' hop up to the front

er fancied his bleat, so he s

uldn't," said the

y to 'Alice, wh

uting five minutes for h

e her face a

id Sharpe,

ellow is singing about

row, Dicky Bird, so don't you fret about

ne that sent you t

ek. I'm chairman. I mean the

es

die with laughing. And mind you illustrate it w

," shouted all the

hear, G

you get an encore, Dicky Bird, yo

ave we to invite out of

as the uni

him, then

ton," said someone,

on, and I say, you ch

Cherry, acidly; "

ruity. Your epil

is it,

open to St. Amory's juniors only.

all. "One more feath

id Rogers, "I don

have one two-minutes' round each draw. It will go

nts? I propose you, Grim,"

if you were 'rocky' in the last rounds. We'll ask Carr to

company on t

n must se

Brown key

cond

said the ch

elf stage manager. I'm the only fe

des, a chairman can't propose him

s proposal," said Wilso

ed, ne

was!" said Cherry. "Yo

on and I will go up to Acton, and see what he'll do