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Let us go back and talk the game over with him. "I played football in my prep. school days," he says, "and on the 'Varsity teams of the University of Pennsylvania in the years '82-'83-'84.
Their prep school has beaten our academy both in football and basketball for the last five years; their city baseball team beat ours every time they played; they got ahead of us in the number of men who enlisted in the army, and they outdid us in the Liberty Loan. There's nothing but rivalry all through everything. Oakwood is just wild to get ahead of Hillsdale in something.
"And," said the amateur Shylock, returning to the form-room and dropping at Stalky's side, "if he don't think the house is putrid with it, I'm several Dutch-men that's all... I've been to Mr. Prout's study, sir." This to the prep.-master. "He said I could sit where I liked, sir... Oh, he is just tricklin' with emotion... Yes, sir, I'm only askin' Corkran to let me have a dip in his ink."
Shun! Pursuin' practice I Prep air! Go! Shun! That's all right, sir. Ever been in the service before, young feller? 'No, said Polson. 'I always meant to join, and I thought I'd get ready as far as I could. 'Now look here, my lad, said the Sergeant. 'You've been through the mill before, you have. You're a deserter, you know, that's what you are. Polson laughed.
"Would you prefer to ask him on some half-holiday, when you can spend the afternoon together?" asked Mrs. Ormond. "Oh no, mother! I'd rather have him on my birthday. We'll do our prep. work as soon as ever we come back from school, and then we shall have the whole evening free." "What shall we do?" asked Ida. "Play games?"
The stipulation that Charteris should play only before prep. was rigidly observed, except when Merevale was over at the Hall, and the Sixth had no work. On such occasions Charteris felt justified in breaking through the rule. He had a gramophone, a banjo, a penny whistle, and a mouth organ. The banjo, which he played really well, was the most in request, but the gramophone was also popular.
She had made tremendous strides lately, and her swift serves were the terror of her opponents. The hostel felt justly proud of her achievements, and would collect in the evening, after prep., to watch her play a set of singles with Susie Wakefield, who, though older and taller, almost invariably lost.
Mollie lay back in her chair, and began reading in her clear fresh tones "Darling Moll, While you are basking in the lap of luxury, this poor critter is snatching a few precious moments from `prep' to answer your last epistle, and give what news there is.
So the Sergeant set his squad to stand at ease again, and Polson, being provided with a belt and sabre, was stuck up in front of it, feeling absurdly like a trick ape on show. 'Draw so! Slope so! Prep air! Prove distance! and so on. 'Pursuin' practice. One. Cut thrust parry. Two. Cut thrust parry. Shunt Now from the word of command, right through. Sword exercise. Prep air! Prove distance go!
"That it was the best possible thing you could possibly do," Sally retorted. Bobby frowned. "You are so feminine and subjective, Sally. I suppose you can't help it, though. But really Arlt, for instance, has produced a prize composition, while he is still studying. That's exactly what we used to do in prep. school. Fancy a school for novelists, with night classes for indigent poets!
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