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Many of you may be will be surprised to hear me propose Bourne, for between us two, as you all know, there has been no love lost. But in all the dreary business I have been the utter cad and Bourne the other thing. He brought upon himself any amount of bad feeling because he would not give me my 'footer' cap.
Now I'll be candid with you. I like Lovell. There's no nonsense about him. He don't put on frills because he's in the Sixth, and he don't mean to take to their sneaking, spying ways. He's just as anxious as Warde to see the Manor cock-house at footer and cricket, and I'm as keen as he is; but we stop there. The Balliol Scholarship may go hang.
While Acton was thus making such strenuous exertions to lift Biffen's out of the mire, Bourne was finding out the whole unpainted beauty of the situation as far as it concerned himself. The experimental footer elevens were chosen in what, I believe, is the usual manner.
It's a five-and-twenty footer, though, without doubt." "Yes," said Brace, "but I hope they're not going to be long with that rope. I say, any fear of Indians about here?" "Hi! look out!" cried one of the sailors, calling to Brace and the others from where they were dividing the thick growth and peering about trying to see what was beyond.
In this struggle any fresher who had never played rugger in his life, but thought he would like some exercise, could play, while footer blues dodged round and took your names, if you were lucky enough to touch the ball, and booked you for the proper game.
There did not pass an afternoon but that he turned out for footer, and coached, encouraged, bullied, stormed, praised each individual member of the team with the strictest impartiality and Spartan justice. The smallest fault was dragged out into the light of day, and commented on with choice fulness, and any clever concerted piece of work got its due reward.
He sat on the deck with his back against the superstructure and his hands clasped round his knees. "It's a topping day, too," added Malison from his vantage astride the coir-hawser reel. "Too good to waste onboard. The footer ground's bagged let's have a picnic in one of the cutters. Have tea ashore, an' fry bangers over a fire." The project found favour generally.
I asked him why on earth he tried to play footer at all. I told him a good kiss-in-the-ring club was about his form. It was rather cheap, but I felt so frightfully sick about it. It's sickening to be let down like that when you've been pressing the whole time, and ought to be scoring every other minute." "What had he to say on the subject?" asked Clowes.
'I was lunching with a man at the Bachelor's only yesterday who swore he knew a fellow who had met a man whose cousin worked. But I don't see what I could do, don't you know. His father raised himself on the sofa. 'Haven't I given you the education of an English gentleman? 'That's the difficulty, said Clarence. 'Can't you do anything? asked his mother. 'Well, I can play footer.
"Rum affair about the footer cap," said Gus. "Rather so. But I believe Phil Bourne is as straight as a die. I'm not so sure of Acton, though. I fancy there's something to be explained about the cap. By the way, Gus, are you going to loaf about this term as usual? Taylor's house side really does want bigger fellows than it's got." "No!" said Gus.
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