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Grinder, having a slight cold, had not spoken this evening, but several other infidels, including Sweater, Didlum, Bosher, and Starr, had addressed the meeting, making a special appeal to the working people, of whom the majority of the crowd was composed, to give up all the vain pleasures of the world in which they at present indulged, and, as Rushton had eloquently put it at the close of his remarks: 'Come and jine this 'Oly band and hon to glory go!
Rowles could tell him all about Juliet; and after giving him some breakfast sent him back in the Fairy to his own side of the river, with a request that Mrs. Bosher would take Juliet to the station, where someone would meet the tiresome girl and convey her to her home in London.
Your trousers won't split." "How do you know they won't? Better men than I have split their trousers. General Bosher was a D.S.O., with a fine record of service on the north-western frontier of India, and his trousers split. I shall be a mockery and a scorn. I know it. And you, fully cognizant of what I am in for, come babbling about good news.
"Yes," said Parson, terrified at the prospect of Mr Parrett having to go through the ordeal. "Telson, Bosher, King, and I are the only boys here." "All serene," cried the jubilant voice outside, "open the door, you fellows!" We draw a veil over the scene which followed!
He's small in the world, but he'd better get out of the light, my boy, or he'll catch it!" Bosher subsides at this point, and the two friends resume their divided interest in the match, and old Wyndham, and the monkey-nuts. Presently two familiar forms saunter past, arm-in-arm. "There go Riddell and Bloomfield," says Parson. "Awfully chummy they've got, haven't they?
"That'll do, that's enough; he is a Radical then; he says so himself!" cried Telson, shutting up the book, and flinging it across the room at Bosher, who was standing near the door and just dodged it in time. A regular scramble ensued to secure the "gross" volume, in the midst of which the unhappy author, seeing his chance, slipped from the room, and bolted for his life down the passage.
"I was looking for a book I had lost," said Bosher, "in the Big near our door, and I heard Cusack tell Pilbury to wait till he went and saw if the coast was clear. So they'll be here directly." "Jolly lucky you heard them," said Parson. "What shall we do, you fellows?" There was a slight interval for reflection, and then Telson said, "Fancy the jug dodge is about the best.
Even such stick-at-nothing enthusiasts as Parson, Bosher, and Co., couldn't make a case of it, and were forced to admit with deep mortification that the glory had departed from Parrett's, at any rate for a season. Perhaps the most patriotic rejoicings that evening were in Welch's house.
Telson, Parson, Bosher, King, and Wakefield, called the "Skyrockets," whose object was to look after the interests of the juniors all over the school, and who would be glad to receive fresh members at one shilling a head?
"I don't suppose any one could make him out enough," said King. "It's awful rot." "Yes, and Ashley says it's awfully bad Latin." Parson laughed satirically. "Jolly lot they care what sort of Latin it is as long as they can do us over it." "I believe," said Bosher, "Gilks has a key to Todhunter." "He has?
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