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What a row there'll be if they don't!" It was a curious thing that almost immediately after this short dialogue Telson's cap fell off into the road, and the fly had to be pulled up while he and Parson got down and looked for it. It was a dark night, and the cap took some time to find.
We wouldn't have done it if we thought it was you, sir indeed we wouldn't." "No, sir, that we wouldn't," chimed in the chorus. "And who did you think it was, pray?" inquired Mr Parrett. "A schoolhouse fellow," replied Parson, avoiding Telson's glances. "Which schoolhouse boy?" asked the master. "Any one, sir. It didn't matter much which." "Indeed.
The natural thing, of course, on not finding him at home in his own quarters, was to look for him in Telson's. But he was not there, nor, strange to say, was Telson himself. And, what was still more odd, when search came to be made, Bosher, another fag of Parrett's house, was missing, and so was Lawkins, and Pringle, and King, and Wakefield, and one or two others of the same glorious company.
Well, he supposed he'd have to get reported; and probably "Paddy" would give it him on the hands. He was always getting it on the hands, far oftener than Telson, who was Riddell's fag, and never had to go and steer boats up the river. In fact, Riddell, he knew, looked over Telson's lessons for him catch Bloomfield doing as much for Parson!
He'd have to cram up the Caesar from Telson's crib somehow, only the nuisance was Bloomfield had fixed on this particular morning for a turn on the river with Game, and Parson would of course have to steer for them. Just his luck again!
"I tell you what I'll do," said he, in a business-like manner, much as if Brown had asked him to clean out his study for him, "if you ask Telson to come too, I'm game." Brown half doubted whether these two allies had not been consulting together on the subject, so startling was the similarity of their conditions. "Oh! Telson's coming," he said, in as offhand a way as he could. "He is!
Telson's highly-coloured version made it appear that a pitched battle had been fought between Game and the new captain, resulting in the defeat of the former chiefly through Telson's instrumentality and assistance.
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