20/26 "Sometimes I have taken on a match at Hurlingham; and we found the Egyptian pigeons around Cairo not bad." "Would you like to have a little match at our birds ?" "I shouldn't mind." "Oh, you'll be welcome! We'll take your money away from you. There is Bardine--or say, Major Westover. Haskins of the Sixth got eighty-five out of his last hundred. Once he made it ninety-two, but that's above average, of course." "You interest me," said Orme, still lazily. "For the honor of my country I shouldn't mind a go with one of your gentlemen. |