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"Let me out, boys!" cried Mr Parrett as well as he could for choking and holding his nose. "Tell you it won't wash, my boy!" cried the insulting voice outside. "Try again! Have a little more sulphuretted hydrogen. Jolly stuff, isn't it? Hold on, you fellows, while I chuck it in!" The idea of another bottle was more than any one could endure.
"Exactly," said Mr Parrett. The doctor paused for a moment and then started on an apparently fresh topic. "I am afraid Welch's house is no better than it was." "How can it be?" said Mr Parrett. "It has not a single senior of influence or even character in it." "And more than that," added the doctor, "it contains a few boys one or two only, I hope whose influence is distinctly bad."
After the defeat at Naseby the Royalists, under Lord Goring, on July 10, 1645, met their foes on the bank of the Parrett, near Langport, were defeated and put to flight, losing fourteen thousand prisoners, and the king's troops never made a stand afterwards.
"Yes," said Parson, terrified at the prospect of Mr Parrett having to go through the ordeal. "Telson, Bosher, King, and I are the only boys here." "All serene," cried the jubilant voice outside, "open the door, you fellows!" We draw a veil over the scene which followed!
Kinglake met them on their own ground. In his flowery speeches the romance of Sinai and Palestine faded before the glories of the little Somersetshire town. What was the Jordan by comparison with the Parrett? Could Libanus or Anti- Libanus vie with the Mendip and the Quantock Hills? The view surveyed by Monmouth from St.
And what has the schoolhouse done to you?" said Mr Parrett, leaning back in his chair and pushing his plate away. It wasn't an easy question, but Parson felt something ought to be said. "Some of them are rather cads, sir," he said. "And we don't like them," said Lawkins. "And you think they ought to like you?" asked Mr Parrett, severely. This was a poser.
And with no more ceremony he came to where I and the two house-carles yet stood, and looked and laughed a little to himself as he did so. "He is Morgan the prince, right enough," he said. "And I can tell you all the trouble. Your sheriff hung his brother, Dewi, three months since for cattle lifting and herdsman slaying on this side Parrett River, somewhere by Puriton, where no Welshman should be.
The other rivers, the Frome and Chew, which join the Avon; the Axe, which rises in Wookey Hole and enters the sea near Brean Down; the Brue and Cary, which empty themselves into the estuary of the Parrett; and the Parrett's own tributaries, the Yeo, Ivel, and Tone, are unimportant. Exmoor is drained by the Exe and Barle, which, when united, flow southward into Devon.
But Fairbairn was loth to give up his idea; so he went to Mr Parrett, and asked him if he would mind running with the schoolhouse pair-oar during the next morning's spin, and watching the steering of the new captain. Mr Parrett did so; and was not a little pleased with the performance, but advised Fairbairn to try him in the four-oar before deciding.
Mr Parrett had his reward, however, in the good will of the boys generally, which he prized highly, and nowhere was he more popular than among the juniors of his own house. What was their dismay, therefore, at the accident of that unlucky afternoon, and with what doleful faces did they present themselves in a melancholy procession at the door of his room at the appointed hour!
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