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"There is a little race-meeting down below Reading; you pulled me into that Browning thing and it is only fair for you to come to this." "But I shan't be back in time." "It's only about twenty miles beyond Reading, and there's no footer match, because I've looked to see. Let's get Bunny Langham and have a rest, it will do us all no end of good.
A gloom settled down over the House, everyone became peevish and discontented. It was said that the great days of House footer were over. To lose both the Thirds and the Two Cock was a disgrace. No one expected anything but a rout in the Three Cock. There were bets in the day-room as to whether the score would be under fifty. Interest centred entirely on who would get their House caps.
Look at my beak! Well, we got all these pretty marks at footer owin' to the zeal with which we played the game, said Stalky, dusting himself. 'But d'you think you're fit to be let loose again, Pater? 'Sure you don't want to kill another sub-prefect? I wish I was Pot. I'd cut your sprightly young soul out. 'I s'pose I ought to go to Pot now, said Winton.
Worcester and Acton had nothing in common, and, except that they were in the same house and form, they would not probably have come to nodding terms. Worcester, of course, looked up to the magnificent "footer" player as the average player looks up to the superlative.
"Well, then, consent to captain our footer eleven and we give ourselves a chance, for I can't make the fellows raise a gallop at any price, and I somehow think you can. Have a try. If you are sick of it at Christmas, I'll come in again; honour bright. It isn't too good-natured of me to ask you to pull Biffen's out of the mud, but you're the only fellow to do it if it can be done. Will you?"
"And you believe that, Dick?" said Acton, with a whistle of contemptuous incredulity. "I do," said Dick. "But you are not exactly quite the flier at cricket that you are at 'footer, so you can't afford to slack up now." "I've got private knowledge," said Acton, with a filthy lie, "that I won't get 'em in any case, so I shall not try."
But they're in Harry's voice and twice he wipes his eyes. They're not in Huggo's. Harry says to Huggo: "I say, I'm not going to be harsh; but, I say, can't you understand the disgrace; can't you understand the shame, old man? You've been at the finest school in England and you've had to leave. You're sixteen. Old man, when I was sixteen I got my footer colours. I was the youngest chap in the team.
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Every house captain looked with dread upon the house of Corker, great alike at cricket and footer, and it was agreed that very probably Phil Bourne would once more lead his men on to victory. Biffen's house did not stand much chance, for there was no superlative Acton at cricket; but it was, indeed, mainly through his efforts that Biffen's was as good as it was.
The whole school's fritefully bucked up about you, and we're one up on Fenner's.... "What's Fenner's?" I said to Peter. "Oh, that's another school at Beckenham. They're stinkers. Put on no end of side because some smug of theirs won a schol' at Uppingham last term. But we beat them at footer."
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