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Updated: May 12, 2025
Fenn's pianoforte solo was the second item of the second half. He mounted the platform amidst howls of delight from the gallery. Applause at the Eckleton concerts was granted more for services in the playing-fields than merit as a musician. Kubelik or Paderewski would have been welcomed with a few polite handclaps. A man in the eleven or fifteen was certain of two minutes' unceasing cheers.
Eckleton was not a great distance from London, and, as a consequence, many of London's choicest blackguards migrated there from time to time. During the hopping season, and while the local races were on, one might meet with two Cockney twangs for every country accent. "I want to see the old gentleman who lives here," said Fenn. "Wot old gentleman?" "I'm afraid I don't know his name.
The gist of the oration was apparently that the Eckleton cadets were to consider themselves not only as soldiers and as such subject to military discipline, and the rules for the conduct of troops quartered in the Aldershot district but also as members of a public school. In short, that if they misbehaved themselves they would get cells, and a hundred lines in the same breath, as it were.
But he reconciled himself to it, and on the whole enjoyed his first day at Eckleton. On the second there occurred an Episode. Thomas had inherited from his mother a pleasant, rather meek cast of countenance. He had pink cheeks and golden hair almost indecently golden in one who was not a choirboy.
The senior dayroom was aggrieved at Kennedy's taking this post from Fenn. Fenn was in his second year in the school fifteen, and he was the three-quarter who scored most frequently for Eckleton, whereas Kennedy, though practically a certainty for one of the six vacant places in the school scrum, was at present entitled to wear only a second fifteen cap.
It was while matters were in this strained condition that Fenn received a letter from his elder brother. This brother had been at Eckleton in his time School House and had left five years before to go to Cambridge. Cambridge had not taught him a great deal, possibly because he did not meet the well-meant efforts of his tutor half-way.
Shearne, "you are sure to be comfortable at school, because I asked Mrs. Davy to write to her sister, Mrs. Spencer, who has a son at Eckleton, and tell her to tell him to look after you when you get there. He is in Mr. Dencroft's house, which is next door to Mr. Blackburn's, so you will be quite close to one another. Mind you write directly you get there." "All right, mother."
I am aware that in a properly-regulated story of school-life Walton would have gone to the Eckleton races, returned in a state of speechless intoxication, and been summarily expelled; but facts are facts, and must not be tampered with. The ingenious but not industrious Perry had been superannuated. For three years he had been in the Lower Fourth.
Then, again, the heat always happens to be particularly oppressive on that day. Snow may have fallen on the day before, but directly one sets out for camp, the thermometer goes up into three figures. The Eckleton contingent marched into the lines damp and very thirsty. Most of the other schools were already on the spot, and looked as if they had been spending the last few years there.
From his first day at Eckleton he had been taught the simple creed of the Blackburnite, that Eckleton was the finest school in the three kingdoms, and that Blackburn's was the finest house in the finest school. Under the gas-bracket by the door hung the first photograph in which he appeared, the cricket team of four years ago.
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