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"Yes, but the thing is, Welch's is coming up to his level," says Bloomfield, "instead of his going down to Welch's." "I should say," says young Wyndham, blushing a little to hear his own voice before this imposing assembly, "all Willoughby's coming up to his level!" "The young 'un's right, though he is a Limpet," says Crossfield.
The crew consisted of Fairbairn, Porter, Coates, and Gilks, with Crossfield steering: the first time a complete schoolhouse crew had appeared on the river this year. The blood of the young Parretts was up, and the credit of their house was in question. "Put it on now," said Parson to his men, as the schoolhouse boat came up. "Show 'em what you can do! Now then, slide into it! Race 'em!"
"I shall want the tub-pair after third school," said he to the boatman. "Riddell, will you come and cox. Crossfield and me?" "Who Crossfield?" asked Coates. "Yes; I shall try him for bow." "You mean to say," exclaimed Gilks, taking the matter in, "you're going to turn me out of the boat?" "Certainly," said Fairbairn, coolly. "What for?" demanded Gilks, threateningly.
So Game tried to rush the thing through, and get the fellows to vote before Crossfield knew what was up. But he wasn't to be done that way." "`I didn't quite hear what the motion was? says he, as solemn as a judge. "`Oh! it's about the honour of the school. Riddell
"`Excuse me, Mr Deputy-Chairman and ex-monitor, says Crossfield, and there was a regular laugh at that hit, because, of course, Game had no more right in the chair, now he's not a monitor, than I had. `If it's anything to do with the honour of the school, of course it couldn't be in better hands than yours, who have summoned the meeting on the sly, and taken such care to select a nice little party!
"And if I only had the flow of costermonger's talk which some people possess " began Crossfield. "Are you going to shut up or not?" demanded Bloomfield. "Hullo! you aren't captain yet, old man!" replied the irrepressible Crossfield; "but if you want to know, I am going to shut up now till I want to speak again."
"Have them over, Parrett's!" shouted a voice, as Wibberly staggered back a second time before Fairbairn's stalwart arm, while at the same moment Tucker received a similar rebuff from Crossfield. The summons was promptly answered, and a dash was made on the five schoolhouse boys with a view to carrying out the threat literally, when Wyndham's voice shouted, "Rescue here! schoolhouse, come on!"
This was the signal for loud schoolhouse cheers, and for general attention from all quarters, for Crossfield usually had something to say worth listening to. I'm not sure that the doctor might not think it worth a half-holiday. A sign of intelligence from the hon. gentleman! And what is the sign, sir? I could not have believed it.
"It seems to me," says Coates, "that sticking up for your house, and sticking up for your school, and sticking up for yourself, are none of them bad things." "But," says old Wyndham, "unless you put them in the right order they may do more harm than good." "And what do you say the right order is?" asks Crossfield. "Why, of course, Willoughby first, your house next, and yourself last."
Fairbairn joined Crossfield, and the two did just what they liked with the bowling. As the score shot up from fifty to sixty and from sixty to seventy, the school became perfectly hoarse with cheering.
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