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They lay on their oars and waited for the foe to come up, Cusack shouting meanwhile, "Who'd be afraid of a pack of thieves like you! I wouldn't! I dare you to land and fight us! Dare you to run into us! Dare you to stand still till we lick you! Dare you to do anything but steal other fellows' grub! Ye-ow!" "Now, you fellows," cried Parson, "put it on."
Captain Cusack, R.N., the meekest and most amiable of men, resigns himself pleasantly to the will of his dutiful conductor, only too pleased to see the boy so happy, and pardonably gratified to know that he himself is the special object of that young gentleman's jubilation.
Riddell went as warmly into the details as any one, and took every opportunity of working up the patriotic spirit of his younger companions. "You know," said he, "I don't see at all why we shouldn't be able to get together a team for the junior elevens if we practise hard." "The nuisance is," said Cusack, "we're stopped an hour a day's play all this term." "What for?" inquired the captain.
He therefore placed another saucer upside down upon this one, and carefully strained off between the two all the liquid, leaving only a black powder in the saucer, which he announced was iodide of nitrogen. "Jolly rum name," said Cusack, "what does it do?" "You wait a bit," said Philpot, scooping the wet powder up with the end of a knife and spreading it out on small separate pieces of paper.
Nowhere was this activity more observed than in the newly-revived Welchers' club, presided over by the captain, and enlivened by the countenances of that ardent trio, Cusack, Pilbury, and Philpot. During the week preceding the election they had worked with unabated enthusiasm. You might have seen practice going on any morning at half- past six in the Welchers' corner of the Big.
The company has crowded into the enclosure, and boys, ladies, gentlemen, masters are all mixed up in one great throng through which it is almost impossible for even so dexterous a tug as young Cusack to pilot his worthy relative.
What had he done to deserve this crowning torture? Tea with the Griffins! He sat down and wrote, as in politeness bound, that he would have much pleasure in accepting the doctor's kind invitation, and, sending the note off by Cusack, resigned himself to the awful prospect, which for a time shut out everything else. However, he had no right, he felt, to be idle.
Cusack, little suspecting the importance of this simple message, delivered it glibly, and being of course brimful of the excitement of the hour, he remained a little to regale Wyndham with a history of the afternoon's events. "Oh, I say," said he, "you weren't at Parliament this afternoon. There was no end of a shine on." "Was there?" asked Wyndham. "Rather.
"I was looking for a book I had lost," said Bosher, "in the Big near our door, and I heard Cusack tell Pilbury to wait till he went and saw if the coast was clear. So they'll be here directly." "Jolly lucky you heard them," said Parson. "What shall we do, you fellows?" There was a slight interval for reflection, and then Telson said, "Fancy the jug dodge is about the best.
"Why shouldn't old Mr Cusack go it and let out that is all right, Philpot, you pig, I'll pay you out, see if I don't. Why shouldn't old Mr Cusack, gentlemen er " "Do," suggested Cusack himself. "Do," shouted Pilbury, "do, gentlemen do? "Does any gentleman second the amendment?" asked Mr Isaacs, evidently getting hungry and anxious to be released from his post.
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