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I played in all the 'Varsity rugger matches which were not scratched, and we finished up by beating the Wellingham Nomads after a muddy and desperate struggle. Murray was playing for the Nomads and Foster for the 'Varsity, and so many Wellingham people came round to Murray's rooms after the match that I had to hold a kind of overflow meeting in my rooms, after the manner of political gatherings.
My brother's an odd kind of chap, the sort of man who doesn't know the ace of spades by sight, but it's as easy to shout as it is not to row. Your name's Marten, isn't it?" "Yes," I replied; "how did you know that?" "I scored when you came over last term to play for Cliborough against Wellingham. I was twelfth man to the XI., though you needn't believe it if you don't want to.
It's wonderful what a crop of twelfth men there are kicking around; you may just as well say you are a liar smack out, as tell any one you are a twelfth man." I told him that I believed him. "That's only your politeness," he went on; "in a week you will be talking about me as 'that man Ward who says he was twelfth man at Wellingham."
Sebastian to George Wellingham in St. Swithin's Lane, London, in 1631 or 1632, "for a good Mastive dogge, a case of bottles replenished with the best lickour, and pray proceur mee two good bulldoggs, and let them be sent by ye first shipp." Obviously the name was derived from the dog's association with the sport of bull-baiting.
"Yes it was left to him and Dennison, I believe." "Then I am not likely to be invited, for he and I never could do anything but have rows with each other at Wellingham." "What about?" I asked, for Murray had never said much about Ward to me and I wanted to hear his side of the quarrel. "It isn't worth repeating," he answered.
Murray was going as Ward came in, and they nodded and said "Good-morning" in the way men do when they don't altogether love one another. "You seem to know everybody," I said, without much reason, as soon as Murray had disappeared. "I can't well help knowing that fellow, considering that he was at Wellingham with me for five years." "He didn't tell me he was at Wellingham."
Edwardes said about diet, and I told him afterwards that he was an arch-humbug; but it turned out that he had been bothered all his life at least he said so by indigestion, and that at Wellingham he had lived on some peculiar biscuit for nearly a fortnight, which recalled to my mind what Ward had said to me about him.
I simply couldn't have faced you men if I hadn't owned up, and that ends it." At that moment Dennison walked in wearing an enormous overcoat and a Wellingham scarf round his neck, he looked as beautifully pink as ever, and I hated the sight of him.
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