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The Triple Alliance

CHAPTER I
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We call our rooms by different names, and it's all against all; one lot come and make a raid on you, and then you go and pay them out.

This term Kennedy and Jacobs sleep in the room above ours, and next to the big attic.

They're always reading sea stories, and they call their room the 'Main-top,' because it's so high up.

Then at the end of the passage are Acton, Shaw, and Morris, and they're the 'House of Lords;' and next to them is the 'Dogs' Home,' where all the other fellows are put." A few hours later Diggory and his two room-mates were standing at the foot of their beds and discussing the formation of a few simple rules for conducting a race in undressing, the last man to put the candle out.
"You needn't bother to race," said Mugford; "I'll do it--I'm sure to be the last." "No, you aren't," answered Vance.

"We'll give you coat and waistcoat start; it'll be good fun--" At this moment the door was suddenly flung open, two half-dressed figures sprang into the room, and discharged a couple of snowballs point-blank at its occupants.


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