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Grim had cheerfully compared Miss Hilda to the queenly Juno, and said that if she would give Biffen's her protection, the house would give the other houses "fits" when the housers came round again; then he put in something about her hair, unconsciously cribbed from Ovid; and something about her walk this I tracked to Horace; and wound up the whole farrago by saying he was ready to be her door-mat and to shield her from the furies, etc., which, I think, Grim genuinely evolved out of his own effervescing breast.
"Well, here's a shilling for each of you if you keep it dark. I'm deucedly glad the dervishes didn't play. I'd rather lose a dozen housers than feel the niggers were indispensable. Now, cut; and next time you bottle 'em up, see they don't get out." "Golly!" said Rogers, as the two left Worcester to his tea. "I suppose the sun's affected Worcester's brain."
"I've been and let the house in for a rollicking time," he said, abstracting the copy of Latin verses which his friend was doing, and sitting on them to ensure undivided attention to his words. "Wanting to score off old Henfrey I have few pleasures I told him that Shields' was not going to scratch. So we are booked to play in the second round of the housers. We drew a bye for the first.
He compared Biffen's house to a water lily growing in a muddy pond, and again as a Phoenix risen from the ashes; and he gave us, with circumstantial details, every round of the footer housers, their two eleven caps, and the Perry Exhibition, and darkly hinted at Acton's exclusion from the eleven. He wound up his awful farrago in one glorious burst of solemn fury
"You put in a lot of extra practice at one of those bottom nets, Grimmy, and you'll find Worcester'll shove you in first choice, almost, this go." "Serene. Shall we try to raise a bottle of cherries now," said Grim, lazily, lounging from net to net. "It's heaps too soon to think of housers yet." "You conceited ass, Grimmy! Not for you. Your batting is too awful." "Don't worry now.
"I thought we shouldn't be able to manage Blackburn's," said Kennedy, "What we must do now is win that sports' cup." There were certain houses at Eckleton which had, as it were, specialised in certain competitions. Thus, Gay's, who never by any chance survived the first two rounds of the cricket and football housers, invariably won the shooting shield.
The rest of the houses knew that Biffen's house was not now the unconsidered article it was once; that it wasn't the door-mat upon which any one might wipe his feet before proceeding into the inner circles of the housers' competition, and there was more than a little curiosity to see how far the "resurrected" house would mount. But not a single soul dreamt that it would reach the final.
Amory's firmly convinced that Biffen's was the most glorious house that had ever existed, and that it would do thanks to Acton, Worcester, and the dervishes great things when the cricket housers came round. "Grimmy," said Wilson, "you'll have to try to get into the team this year. You would last, if your batting hadn't been so rotten." "All right, old man; don't rub that in too often."
He will send you the magazine with a page or so of description and account, but all I'm going to say is that Bourne and Acton played as they had never played before I think I've said that before about Acton, but he really was superlative in the housers' final and that five minutes from time the score was "one all." Then Acton showed the school a stroke of genius.
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