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Every man in the boat has done something for Willoughby in times past, and as the boys see their heroes ready now for a fresh triumph, they forget all about their little tyrannies indoors, and cheer them like mad. "Bravo Parrett's. Bravo, Bloomfield! Hurrah, captain! You're to win." Even the Welchers for the moment join in the popular clamour.
The Welchers, notwithstanding the fact that they had only twenty-five runs to get to equal their rivals' first innings, played a steady and careful innings, in which they just trebled the Parretts' score. The bowling against them was not strong certainly, but they took no liberties with it.
"Would leeches be better?" said Bosher, who had lately been giving himself to scientific investigation. It was considered leeches might not be bad, but there was rather too much uncertainty about their mode of action. That was a sort of thing more in Cusack's and the Welchers' line than the present company's.
The schoolhouse boat has won the toss, for it takes up the inside berth, amid the triumphant cheers of its partisans. "Hurrah! you're inside," they cry. "Mind you put them into the bank," is the derisive echo of the enemy. "Now, Fairbairn; now, you fellows," cries Wyndham's voice. "Now, boss Riddell mind your eye. Pull your left when you want to go right," shout the facetious Welchers.
"There you are!" exclaimed Parson, triumphantly: "didn't I tell you so? Bosher! What do you mean by telling such howling crams, Bosher?" "I only meant " "Shut up! Fire away, Telson!" "`I am the Radical. I desire to smash everything the little Welchers make noises. Meditations: let me be noble dinner at 3:1 stew. The turnips are gross.
Crossfield was the plague of the senior Welchers' lives! "I was much affected by the beautiful speech of the gentleman who has just sat down," he began. "It is always so sweet to hear conscious innocence asserting itself. "Then, I don't think Mr Ashley is very complimentary to Mr Bloomfield when he says the fault of all the mischief is that the captain is not an all-round man.
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.
In the presence of this common doom, schoolhouse, Parretts, and Welchers for the first time that term showed symptoms of a passing brotherhood. They stood rooted to the spot and speechless for at least two minutes after the ill-starred master had vanished, then Telson usually the first to recover his wits whistled drearily and low, "Whew! we will catch it!" "Think we'll be expelled?" said Cusack.
"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.
The schoolhouse, on the other hand, indignantly repelled the charge, and dared their opponents defiantly to meet them again. And amidst all this wrangling and bickering, the Welchers dispensed their taunts and invectives with even-handed impartiality, and filled in just what was wanted to make the scene one of utter confusion and Babel.
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