It is too delightful, if papa was but here!" "Isn't it?
You should have seen how Anderson grinned--he is only fourth--down below Forder, and Cheviot, and Ashe." "Well, I did not think Norman would have been before Forder and Cheviot.
That is grand." "It was the verses that did it," said Harry; "they had an hour to do Themistocles on the hearth of Admetus, and there he beat them all to shivers.

'Twas all done smack, smooth, without a scratch, in Alcaics, and Cheviot heard Wilmot saving, 'twas no mere task, but had poetry, and all that sort of thing in it.

But I don't know whether that would have done, if he had not come out so strong in the recitation; they put him on in Priam's speech to Achilles, and he said it--Oh it was too bad papa did not hear him! Every one held their breath and listened." "How you do go on!" muttered Norman; but no one heeded, and Harry continued.

"He construed a chorus in Sophocles without a blunder, but what did the business was this, I believe.

They asked all manner of out-of-the-way questions--history and geography, what no one expected, and the fellows who read nothing they can help, were thoroughly posed.
Forder had not a word to say, and the others were worse, for Cheviot thought Queen Elizabeth's Earl of Leicester was Simon de Montfort; and didn't know when that battle was, beginning with an E .-- was it Evesham, or Edgehill ?" "O Harry, you are as bad yourself ?" "But any one would know Leicester, because of Kenilworth," said Harry; "and I'm not sixth form.