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Gallup dropped a Texas Leaguer over the infield, and Buck Badger walked out With a bat on his shoulder. "It peen up to you, Padger!" cried Dunnerwurst. "See vot you coot dood py der ball." At this juncture Sparkfair issued his first pass, and Badger walked, filling the bases. Berlin Carson tried to drive in some runs, but popped up an infield fly and was out. Then Hans Dunnerwurst started forth.
And they saw Paul and Padger stick up two or three forms on end, to represent a castle. And they saw two other boys walk majestically on to the platform in ulsters and billycock hats, and their trousers turned up, and sticks in their hands to represent soldiers. "Now you can turn round," cried Stephen.
It was unanimous, for directly after this magnanimous statement he and Paul and a few others proceeded summarily to eject Bramble, Padger, and others who showed signs of opposition; and then, locking the door, proceeded to an immediate vote, which, amid loud Guinea-pig cheers, was declared to be unanimous, one contumacious Tadpole, who had escaped notice, having his hands held down by his sides during the ceremony.
Then doth Bramble the Tadpole stand in his seat and cheer till he is hoarse, and till his grandmother pulleth him by the tail of his jacket. The hero Padger, perspiring very much in the face, but otherwise composed, takes the homage of his chief and the third arithmetic prize with becoming humility, and clears off the arena as fast as he conveniently can.
"That's saying a good deal," returned the marquis. "Not one worrt more as enough, my lort," said Duncan "She was only pe her next wife, put, ochone! ochone! why did she'll pe marry her? You would haf stapt her long aco, my lort, if she'll was your wife, and you was knowing the tamned fox and padger she was pe. Ochone! and she tidn't pe have her turk at her hench nor her sgian in her hose."
He flung his cap on to the peg, and himself on to his seat, in an unusually agitated manner, and then, to the astonishment of everybody, broke out into tears! This was a rare and glorious opportunity, of course, for Bramble. "Beastly young blub-baby!" exclaimed that doughty hero, "you're always blubbing! I never knew such a fellow to blub, did you, Padger?"
A meeting was summoned at the earliest opportunity to take the momentous matter into consideration. "What I say," said Bramble, "is, it's a jolly good job!" "What's a jolly good job?" demanded Stephen, who, of course, was red-hot for the Fifth. "Why, chucking them out! I'm glad to see it, ain't you, Padger?"
"I say, you look just like a clown; doesn't he, Padger, with his eye all sorts of colours and his cheek like a house on fire?" "All very well," said Stephen; "I wish you'd got my cheek." "Bramby's got cheek enough of his own, I guess," put in Paul; whereat Master Bramble fired up, and a quarrel became imminent.
"When's it to come off, I say?" demanded Bramble. "To-night, I should say, or first thing in the morning." "Sure to be to-night. My eye! won't Greenfield senior look black and blue after it!" "No, he won't," cried Paul. "Turn him out!" shouted Bramble. "No one wants you here; do we, Padger? Get yourself out of the meeting, you sneak!" "Get yourself out!" retorted Paul.
Padger said it was worse than the baby at home, and the two thereupon started a mocking caterwaul on their own account, in which not a few of their nearest and dearest friends joined. This performance had the effect of restoring Stephen's composure. Hastily dashing away his tears, he flew with unwonted wrath at his enemy.