Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: July 11, 2025
I think these house-matches are all rot. Let's go over to Colonel Dabney's an' see if he's collared any more poachers." That afternoon there was joy in Aves. The music-room on the top floor of Number Five was filled with the "Aladdin" company at rehearsal.
Prout's imagination leaned to the darker side of life, and he looked on those young-eyed cherubims most sourly. Boys that he understood attended house-matches and could be accounted for at any moment.
Kennedy realised at an early date that the one chance of the house was to get together before the house-matches and play as a coherent team, not as a collection of units. Combination will often make up for lack of speed in a three-quarter line. So twice a week Dencroft's turned out against scratch teams of varying strength. It delighted Kennedy to watch their improvement.
But he had heard McTurk openly deride cricket even house-matches; Beetle's views on the honor of the house he knew were incendiary; and he could never tell when the soft and smiling Stalky was laughing at him. Consequently since human nature is what it is those boys had been doing wrong somewhere. He hoped it was nothing very serious, but... "Ti-ra-ra-la-i-tu! I gloat! Hear me!"
By rotten mismanagement you have got the house-matches crowded up into the last ten days of term, and you come and expect me to sell a fine side like Shields' to get you out of the consequences of your reckless act. My word, Henfrey, you've sunk pretty low. Nice young fellow Henfrey was at one time, but seems to have got among bad companions. Quite changed now. Avoid him as much as I can.
Dencroft's was not depressed. It put the result down to a fluke. Then they beat another side by a try to nothing; and by that time they had got going as an organised team, and their heart was in the thing. They had improved out of all knowledge when the house-matches began. Blair's was the lucky house that drew against them in the first round. "Good business," said the men of Blair.
And with those generous words, with that warm clasp of the hand, Scaife had seen the barrier which he had built between the friends dissolve like ice in the dog-days. The attention of the Manor was now fixed upon the house-matches. It seemed probable that with four members of the School Eleven in the team, the ancient house must prove invincible.
The game, like most house-matches, was played with the utmost keenness. Both teams had good three-quarters, and they attacked in turn. Seymour's had the best of it forward, where Milton was playing a great game, but Trevor in the centre was the best outside on the field, and pulled up rush after rush. By half-time neither side had scored.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking