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As he made no offer to reply, Crossfield thereupon regaled the House with a highly facetious report of that famous meeting, amid much laughter and cheers, not a few of which were directed to the heroic "Skyrockets."
"Lot of fair play you'd want, to turn the boat round and round and catch crabs every other second!" "There are our fellows!" cried Wyndham, raising a loud cheer as Fairbairn, Coates, Porter, Crossfield, and Riddell appeared on the landing stage. "Hurrah! schoolhouse, hurrah!" "Ye-ow, look at them there's a lot!" hooted the Welchers.
No, reader, Riddell had a Friend at Willoughby dearer even than old Wyndham, and nearer than Fairbairn, or Porter, or Crossfield, and that night when all the school was asleep, little dreaming what its captain did, he went to that Friend and told Him all his difficulties about Welch's, and his anxieties about young Wyndham, and even his unhappiness about the boat-race; and in doing so found himself wonderfully cheered and ready to face the new duty, and even hopeful of success.
"We sent young Lawkins off to tell Crossfield what was going on, and directly Ashley sat down old Telson got up and moved an amendment. They tried to cry him down, but they couldn't do it, could they?" "Rather not," said Telson, proudly. "I stuck there like a leech, and the fellows all yelled too, so that nobody could hear any one speak. We kept on singing out `Hole in the corner!
"And presently Crossfield turned up," said Telson. "My eye! you should have seen how yellow and green they looked when he dropped in and walked up to his usual place! We shut up for a bit as soon as he came and, you know, I fancy they'd have sooner we kept it up. They were bound to say something when the row stopped.
It's ahead in everything." This abrupt and somewhat vague termination to Ashley's spirited address did not detract from the applause with which it was greeted by his own partisans, or from the wrath with which it was received by the schoolhouse boys. The moment he sat down Crossfield sprang to his feet.
"`All right! that will suit me just as well, says Crossfield, grinning. `Is it to any particular day, or shall we get notice as before? "Of course they didn't stop to answer, and so we gave no end of a cheer for old Crossfield, and then came on here."
Willoughby literally howled with disappointment, and gave itself up to despair as it saw its captain and champion retreating slowly back to the tent, trailing his bat behind him, and not daring to look up at the hideous "0" on the telegraph board. But hope was at hand, though Parrett's was not to supply it. Coates and Crossfield, who were now together, made a most unexpected and stubborn stand.
At last, after about ten minutes had been spent in this way, and when the young champions were all, except Parson, fairly exhausted, Crossfield took out his watch and said to his crew, winking as he did so, "Time we turned, you fellows; it's five o'clock. Easy all, pull bow side! back water, stroke!"
Fairbairn, Coates, Porter, and Crossfield are there, and Bloomfield and Riddell, and the two Wyndhams, and assuredly a cheerier party never sat down in Willoughby. "I never expected to find you a Welcher," says old Wyndham to the captain. "No? A fellow's sure to find his level, you see, some day," replied Riddell, laughing.
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