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I particularly wanted to have my footer cap why, does not concern any one but myself and I don't fancy losing it because a couple of fellows see something that a hundred others couldn't see, for the sufficient reason that there wasn't anything to see.
"You're right about the horses, major," said Hay, mopping a moist and troubled face with a big bandana. "My racer and my best single footer, Dan, were out last night. Dan's saddle cloth was wet and so was Harney's. Some one outside has got false keys, I'll put new padlocks on at once, but for the life of me I can't think who would play me such a trick.
Mivart's election was certain, and Mivart's election would pay for all for the loss of the "footer" cap, and for that terrible half-hour after Bourne had knocked him out, when he felt himself almost going mad from hatred, rage, disgust, and defeat. He had engineered his schemes beautifully; his revenge would be as perfect.
We know that you deliberately fouled him, and " Acton paled, and his eyes glittered viciously, though he said calmly, "That is a lie." "And," continued Bourne, "though there is not a fellow even a respectable second to you at 'footer, I shall not give you your cap as long as I am captain of the eleven. That is all I came to say."
Some senior men in the college were getting very dissatisfied with the state of it, for they said that it was all right to have an occasional rag if we had anything to rag about; but as we did not seem able to row, play footer or cricket, we had better keep quiet.
"Harder," for hardball racquets, "Footer," "Ducker," etc. The Duke of Dorset was Byron's fag. Cf. "Though the harsh custom of our youthful band Bade thee obey, and gave me to command." Hours of Idleness "You come here where your brothers came, To the old school years ago, A young new face, and a Harrow name, 'Mid a crowd of strangers? No!
Pottie was juist in the middle o' a great hallach o' a lauch, when I grippit him by the collar. He swallowed the rest o' his lauch, I can tell you. "What hae ye dune till my man, ye nesty, clorty, ill-lookin', mischeevious footer?" I says, giein' him a shak' that garred him turn up the white o' his een.
"Briggs says that there is nothing broken, and that as soon as Aspinall gets over the shock he will be all right. The cut may leave a scar, but that will be about all. All the same, Carr, I think that's too heavy a price to pay for the bad temper of one of our fellows who can't stand a tumble into the mud at 'footer. You saw the villainy, didn't you?"
"Why not play young Jackson for the first?" "Too small." "Rot. What does size matter? Cricket isn't footer. Besides, he isn't small. He's as tall as I am." "I suppose he is. Dash, I've dropped my stud." Wyatt waited patiently till he had retrieved it. Then he returned to the attack. "He's as good a bat as his brother, and a better field." "Old Bob can't field for toffee. I will say that for him.
"Will your digestion really allow you to walk about so soon?" Mrs. Faulkner asked. "He never has anything the matter with him," Murray said, with all the thoughtlessness of a dyspeptic. "He used to eat huge lunches, and then play footer; there's not much wrong with a man like that."
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