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CHAPTER I - THE FIFTEENTH PLACE
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CHAPTER I - THE FIFTEENTH PLACE
"Outside!"
"Don‘t be an idiot, man. I bagged it first."
"My dear chap, I‘ve been waiting here a month."
"When you fellows have _quite_ finished rotting about in front of
that bath don‘t let _me_ detain you."
"Anybody seen that sponge?"
"Well, look here"--this in a tone of compromise--"let‘s toss for it."
"All right. Odd man out."
All of which, being interpreted, meant that the first match of the
Easter term had just come to an end, and that those of the team who,
being day boys, changed over at the pavilion, instead of performing the
operation at leisure and in comfort, as did the members of houses, were
discussing the vital question--who was to have first bath?
The Field Sports Committee at Wrykyn--that is, at the school which
stood some half-mile outside that town and took its name from it--were
not lavish in their expenditure as regarded the changing accommodation
in the pavilion. Letters
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