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Updated: June 13, 2025
"It's all very well," said he, "to say it's a schoolhouse chap has done it " "I tell you a schoolhouse chap must have done it," said Parson. "Who else would do such a dirty trick?" "I'll fight you, old man, if you go on like that," observed the schoolhouse fag. "Oh, beg pardon," said Parson, apologetically. "I mean who else could have done it, you know?" "A Welcher might," suggested Telson.
I always did detest a welcher, and if this money is going to a woman to whom it will be manna from heaven to use your words I am satisfied. Convey to her my personal congratulations, gratitude and best wishes. Cordially yours, "Good old Chris!" muttered the sheriff. "He's rich because he's white."
Bloomfield suggested that he had better "find out," and there the matter ended. Wherever the head Welcher took his complaint he got the same answer; and it became perfectly clear that as long as Willoughby was without a captain, law and order was at a discount. However, such a state of things was not destined long to last.
"Well, I don't see why you shouldn't start the House Cricket Club this year, at any rate," said Riddell. "That's just what Tucker and Silk won't do. We wanted them to do it, didn't we, Pil?" "Rather!" said Pil; "and they told us to mind our own business." "Suppose we start it ourselves?" suggested the captain; "I'm a Welcher now, you know.
There was something about the Welcher which had the effect of cowing his companion, and Gilks, fuming inwardly, and with a face as black as thunder, said, "Well say what you've got to say, and be done with it." Silk laughed. "Thank you. I'll take my time, not yours. Which way are you going?" "No way at all," said Gilks, standing still. "Very well. I'm going this way. Come with me."
Different from what it used to be!" "So it is," says Parson. "Not nearly as much chance of a lark. But perhaps it's no harm; it keeps those Welcher kids quiet." "More than it's doing just now! Look at the way young Cusack is bellowing over there! He's as mad on this match as if he was in the eleven." "So he expects to be, some day.
In fact, if every Welcher had been no worse employed that house would not have brought all the discredit on Willoughby which it did. As it was, everybody there seemed to follow his own sweet will without a single thought for the good of the school or the welfare of his fellows.
Never didn't pay a shilling I lost in my life! It's deuced hard, when a fellow is on the square like that, to make two ends meet when he comes across defaulters. Those fellows should be hung. They're the very scum of the earth. Talk of welchers! They're worse than any welcher. Welcher is a thing you needn't have to do with if you're careful.
Twice he frowned purty serious, an' once I caught him givin' Dick a queer hurt look. The ol' man hadn't a drop o' welcher blood in his make-up; but cheatin' was spelled in mighty red letters to 'im. Dick was smilin' now as sweet as a girl baby, an' makin' funny, joshin' remarks, which was a new turn for him; but at the same time the' was somethin' in his face that wasn't altogether pleasant.
But so deeply was the disease of party spirit rooted in Willoughby that even this match came to be looked on quite as much as a struggle between rival houses as between the school and an outside team. The discovery was made that the eleven consisted of five schoolhouse players, five Parrett's players, and one Welcher.
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