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"All I can say is," said Tom Senior, "I'll be better satisfied when I know who did collar that paper if Greenfield didn't." "Oh, but," said Simon, seeing a chance, "I can assure you I saw him when he took it. I was going " "Shut up, you great booby!" cried Ricketts; "who asked you anything about it?" Simon modestly retired hereupon, and Braddy took up the talk.
"Or the Anti-Sixth," says Braddy, who always professes an implacable enmity towards the Sixth when none of them are near to hear him. "Not at all," says Greenfield, speaking now for the first time. "What's the use of making fools of ourselves? Call it the Dominican, and let it be a paper for the whole school." "Greenfield is right," adds Pembury.
Oh, stick to French by all means, Tom; it's in your line! But you might just as well write for Number 2." "I really can't this time," said Tom. Ricketts had an excuse very similar. Bullinger had hurt his foot, he said, and could not possibly write; and Braddy had begun to study fossils, he said, and was bound to devote all his spare time to them.
"I know this," said Ricketts, giving utterance to what was passing in the minds of nearly all his class-fellows, "I'd sooner have lost the scholarship twenty times over than win it like this." "Precious fine glory it will be if we do get it!" said Braddy. "Unless Wray wins," suggested Ricketts. "No such luck as that, I'm afraid," said Bullinger. "That's just the worst of it.
Oliver got out for six, Ricketts for nine, and Tom Senior and Braddy both for a "duck's-egg." Altogether it was a meagre performance, and things looked very gloomy for the Fifth when, for a second time, their adversaries took the wickets. Things never turn out at cricket as one expects, however, and the second innings of the Sixth was no exception to the rule. They only made thirty-six runs.
"Why didn't they put Mansfield in the eleven, or Banks? They're far more use than Fisher or Braddy." "For all that, it'll be a sell if the Sixth lick," said another. "I wouldn't much care. If we are going to be sat upon by those Fifth snobs every time an eleven is made up, it's quite time we did go in with the Sixth."
Here Braddy collapsed entirely. He would sooner be sat upon by Dr Senior himself than by Pembury. "Suppose," once more began Pembury, amid dead silence "suppose, instead of Greenfield senior being a thief and liar, I and all of you have been fools and worse for the last six months? Wouldn't that be funny, you fellows?" "Why, whatever do you mean?" demanded Tom Senior.
Casting about them for such a spot, it happened that Braddy and Ricketts one day lit almost by accident on an old empty study, which some years since had been a monitor's room, but was now empty and tenantless. It at once occurred to these two astute heroes that this would be a magnificent place for boxing-matches.
Everybody heard Loman call you a fool yesterday, and you know our fellows are so clannish that they think, for the credit of the Fifth, something ought to be done." "Let them send Braddy to thrash him, then; I don't intend to fight to please them!" "Oh! that's all right. And if they all knew what you've told me they would understand it; but as it is, they don't."
"Well, I call that a splendid idea," says Braddy. "Won't they be in a fury? "What shall we call it?" some one asks. "Ah, yes," says Pembury, "we ought to give it a good name." "Call it the Senior Wrangler," suggested Ricketts. "Sounds too like a family concern," cried Tom Senior. "Suppose we call it the Fifth Form War Whoop," proposed Wraysford, amid much laughter.
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