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He was down coxing his boat, and the thought of this only reminded Telson of his own bad luck, and added to his ill-temper. He was roused from his moody reflections by the approach of two boys, who hailed him cheerily. "What cheer, Telson, old man?" cried King. "How jolly blue you look! What's the row?" "Nothing," replied Telson. "We've just been down to see the boats.
Mr Riddell knows very little about sports, though I do hear he was seen coxing a schoolhouse boat this morning. Even though he's a Parrett's boy, and therefore can show a sign of intelligence! This oration, delivered with great animation and amidst constant laughter, helped to put the meeting in rather better humour, all except the Parrett's fellows, who did not enjoy it at all.
Perhaps my service as interpreter may be useful; I speaking the language not so well as some one I know, but better than most here. "I scarce venture to write to our mother to tell her of this step. Will you, who have a coxing tongue will wheadle any one, write to her as soon as you have finisht the famous tradgedy?
"It'll be a jolly good race," said Telson. "Old Parson is coxing Parrett's, and it looks like a win for them. Only we aren't so bad, and now Gilks is out of the boat and Riddell's settled as cox we ought to make a race of it. Fairbairn's quite as long a reach as Bloomfield, only he doesn't kick his stretcher so hard does he, Parson?" "Rather not," said Parson.
It would well repay the club to have a path made alongside the creek and to get a professional out from home for a year or two to initiate a high-class style, after which the traditions, once firmly established, would pass down naturally to succeeding generations of oarsmen. The coxing is on a par with the rowing.
And when at the end of that period he did revisit his old haunts, armed with a captain's permit, it was only to discover that whatever small chance he ever had of coxing his house's boat at the coming regatta, had vanished under the new arrangement which had brought Riddell into the boat. It is only fair to say that this disappointment, keen as it was, had no effect on his loyalty.