[The Red Cross Girl by Richard Harding Davis]@TWC D-Link bookThe Red Cross Girl CHAPTER 3 7/55
And you can see for yourself his table manners are quite as bad as yours!" "Worse!" assented Birrell loyally. "And as for ragging! What rags, in your day, were as good as ours; as the Carrie Nation rag, for instance, when five hundred people sat through a temperance lecture and never guessed they were listening to a man from Balliol ?" "And the Abyssinian Ambassador rag!" cried Herbert.
"What price that? When the DREADNOUGHT manned the yards for him and gave him seventeen guns.
That was an Oxford rag, and carried through by Oxford men.
The country hasn't stopped laughing yet.
You give us a rag!" challenged Herbert.
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