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As, however, this narrative did not appear in the same dress two hours running, it was soon taken for what it was worth, and most fellows preferred to believe the Parretts' version of the story, which stated that Riddell had announced his intention of keeping order in Willoughby without the help of the monitors, and had had the cheek to tell Bloomfield to mind his own business.
The crew consisted of Fairbairn, Porter, Coates, and Gilks, with Crossfield steering: the first time a complete schoolhouse crew had appeared on the river this year. The blood of the young Parretts was up, and the credit of their house was in question. "Put it on now," said Parson to his men, as the schoolhouse boat came up. "Show 'em what you can do! Now then, slide into it! Race 'em!"
But his wrath was aimed first of all against those who dared to insinuate that any schoolhouse boy could have been guilty of the evil deed, and next against the Parretts' authorities for refusing Riddell's and Fairbairn's offer of a new race. He and his friend had a long and painful discussion of the whole question an evening or two later in the study of the latter.
Everybody's hand seemed to be against them, and they therefore didn't see why their hand shouldn't be against every one. It was this feeling which had prompted the assaults of which the youthful Parretts had come to complain, and which the Welchers distributed as impartially as possible among all their fellow Willoughbites. The fact was, Welch's was a bad house.
He had been coaching the Welchers for a week or two past, and therefore knew pretty well what their opponents ought to be. And he was bound to admit that the young Parretts were very much below the mark. They had a few good men. Parson was a fair bat, and King bowled moderately; but the "tail" of the eleven was in a shocking condition.
He was one of the small party who yesterday had come in for such a smart snubbing from Bloomfield, and the only way to show his sense of the ingratitude of such treatment, especially towards an old toady like himself, was to profess no interest in an event which was notoriously interesting the Parretts' captain. So Wibberly strolled down that afternoon to the river, and naturally met Gilks.
Perhaps the most serious blow these officious young gentlemen had received hardly second to their snubbing by the Parretts' captain had been the mutiny of their own juniors, on whose cooperation they had calculated to a dead certainty.
"For the Welchers, sir," began Parson, longing to launch out into a full explanation; "and please, sir " But again the master pulled him up short, and, turning to Cusack and his brother Welchers, said, "And you your preparations were for ?" "For the Parretts, sir," broke in Cusack. "Just so," said Mr Parrett, deliberately. "And now just listen to me.
"What's all this foolery you've been up to, you two?" said he, coming into the preparation-room after tea, where most of the senior Parretts were assembled. It was not flattering certainly to the two in question to have their noble protest for the honour of the school thus designated, and Game answered, rather sheepishly, "We've been up to no foolery!"
Wakefield followed, and he too managed to put a few runs together; but as soon as his wicket fell a dismal quarter of an hour followed for the Parretts.
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