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Updated: June 18, 2025
The self-confident ease of these Rockshire men was even a trifle discouraging for a few of the school heroes themselves, who looked on nervously as their rivals coolly went up and inspected the wickets and criticised the pitch, and then proceeded, laughing among themselves, towards the pavilion.
"Was Rockshire a specially weak team this year?" asked the doctor. "I don't think so, sir," replied Fairbairn, politely handing the toast to Miss Stringer as he spoke; "but they evidently weren't so well together as our men."
The practice for the Rockshire match, as well as the play of the newly-started Welchers' club, was for the time completely suspended; and it was evident that until the election was over there was no prospect of seeing the school in its right mind again. The day before the event was a busy and anxious one for the captain. Pilbury, Cusack, and Philpot wanted to get their hair cut.
What, then, was their amazement when he turned not a hair at the question, but replied, stirring his tea complacently as he did so, "You see, each of the Rockshire men may have been a good cricketer, and yet if they had not been used to playing together, as our fellows have been, we should have a decided pull on them." Miss Stringer regarded the speaker critically.
One might have supposed that an occasion like the present, when the picked eleven Willoughby was to play the picked eleven of Rockshire, that there would have been no place left for party rivalry, or any feeling but one of patriotic ardour for the victory of the old school.
He says Riddell is to be the new captain." Tipper burst into a loud laugh. "That would be a joke! Think of Riddell stroking the school eight at Henley, eh! or kicking off for us against Rockshire! I suppose Coates thinks because Riddell's a schoolhouse boy he's bound to be the man. Never fear. You'll see Parrett's come to the front at last, my boy!"
They had no boat on the river this year, and I don't think they will have a man in the eleven against Rockshire. And they seem to have no ambition to work for the school." The doctor mused a bit, and then said, with a half-sigh, as if to himself, "And I wish that were the worst of it."
Shall you be down at the cricket practice again now?" This last was a pertinent question. For in the midst of all the late political excitement cricket had decidedly languished at the school, and the Rockshire match as well as the house matches were getting alarmingly near.
And Mrs Patrick rose majestically to take her seat at the table, leaving Bloomfield writhing and turned mentally inside out, to recover as best he could from this interesting political discussion! "The Rockshire match was a great triumph," said the doctor, cheerily, as the company established itself at the festive board "and a surprise too, surely was it not?"
However much in some ways he might lend himself to the whims of his more energetic comrades, in a matter like the Rockshire match, where he was in sole command, and responsible for the glory of the school, he acted with the sole object of winning the match.
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