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He made friends far and wide, and in every class and station among authors and politicians, bishops and bargees, artists and musicians. Charles Reade learned much from all of them, and all of them were fond of him. But it was the theater that interested him most. Nothing else seemed to him quite so fine as to be a successful writer for the stage.
'You know, said Welch seriously, stooping to unlace his boots, 'rotting apart, you really are a most awful ass. I wish I could get you to see it. 'Never you mind, ducky, said Charteris, 'I'm all right. I'll look after myself. It was about a week after the Bargees' match that the rules respecting bounds were made stricter, much to the popular indignation.
'It would give me the greatest satisfaction to break your bones for asking that! Lushington came a step nearer, his hands in his pockets, though his eyes were rather bright. 'You may try if you like, he said. 'But I've something more to say, and I don't think we need fall to fisticuffs on the highroad like a couple of bargees. I've misunderstood you.
The Bargees managed to score a penalty goal in the first half, and won on that. The match resulted in a draw in the following season, and by this time the thing had become an annual event. Now, however, the School was getting some of its own back. The Bargees had brought down a player of some reputation from the North, and were as strong as ever in the scrum.
'They will know all about it, Noel said, 'when they hear us being blessed by the grateful bargees, and the tale of the Unknown Helpers is being told by every village fireside. And then they can write it in the Golden Deed book. So we went home. Denny and H. O. had thought better of it, and they were fishing in the moat. They did not catch anything.
Well, when he was alive he was a student of Christchurch he used to go down to a certain bridge over the Isis and enjoy the chaff of the bargemen. Now there are no bargemen left to speak of; the mantle of Bobby Burton's bargees has fallen on the Jews and demi-semi-Christians that buy and sell furniture at the weekly auctions; thither I repair to hear what little coarse wit is left us.
And we saw the water-tender open the lock and the weir sluices. It's quite easy, isn't it, Dicky? 'As easy as kiss your hand, said Dicky; 'and what's more, I know where he keeps the other thing he opens the sluices with. I votes we do. 'Do let's, if we can, Noel said, 'and the bargees will bless the names of their unknown benefactors.
As the navigation had been nearly killed by the railway, the canal was allowed to fill itself with water-plants, which were interesting to me, but exceedingly hurtful to the temper of the bargees.
'Look here, Smith, said Mike quickly, 'can't we stop him? These chaps are getting fed up, and they look bargees enough to do anything. They'll be going for him or something soon. 'How can we switch off the flow? I don't see. The man is wound up. He means to get it off his chest if it snows. I feel we are by way of being in the soup once more, Comrade Jackson. We can only sit tight and look on.
At noon Mr. Gibson and I dined at the Swan, and thence doing this at Brook house, and thence caking at the Excise Office for an account of payment of my tallies for Tangier, I home, and thence with my wife and brother spent the evening on the water, carrying our supper with us, as high as Chelsea; so home, making sport with the Westerne bargees, and my wife and I singing, to my great content.
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