Grundy said Thurston was turned out of the team, and I said he wasn't." The captain smiled thoughtfully, and going down on one knee examined the wounded cheek.

"Put some cold water to it," he said, and then walked away.
That look was worth fifty bruises, and for it Jack would have continued the fight with Grundy to the bitter end.

Diggory and Mugford fell upon his neck, and were loud in their declarations that in another round their champion would have "knocked the stuffing out" of his opponent.
That this would really have been the case is, as I remarked before, rather doubtful; but one fact is certain--that the conflict caused the three friends to be more firmly established than ever in their loyalty to the side of law and order.
For a couple of days fellows continued to talk about the skit on the eleven, and to hazard guesses as to who was the writer.

As the majority, however, pronounced it "a dirty shame," and spoke of the author as "some mean skunk," the poet wisely concluded to conceal his identity, and by the end of the week the matter was, for the time being, practically forgotten..