[Follow My leader by Talbot Baines Reed]@TWC D-Link bookFollow My leader CHAPTER TWENTY EIGHT 2/16
See any green? You get a couple of other chaps to stick us down, and then we'll do it." Pauncefote, rather bewildered by this way of putting the matter, went off immediately, and canvassed actively among his particular friends on behalf of the "Firm;" which was very kind of him, as several fellows told him. "Look here, you fellows," said Gosse, approaching the "Firm" with a troubled face, "_do_ you know anybody in the lower Fourth who isn't a cad? I've got down all the other forms, but I can't get a single decent name for the lower Fourth." "Aspinall," said Dick. "But he's such a muff.
I'd be ashamed to put him down." "Aspinall would lick you left-handed at tennis, and knows more Greek than you know English," said Dick, hotly; for he always looked upon the Devonshire boy as a credit to his protecting arm.
"If you call that being a muff, well, he is one, and you aren't, that's all." Gosse received this judgment with attention, and went off to have a private look at Aspinall at close quarters. "Oh, I say, Dick," said Raggles, whom our heroes presently found absorbed in the deepest study; "here's a go! We've only got to put down six in each form, and I've got a dozen down for ours, and don't see I can cut any of them out." "Let's hear their names," said Dick. "All serene! Raggles--" "By Jove, that's modest! You're determined _he's_ to have one vote." "Oh, you know, I believe I'm safe; but, of course, everybody votes for himself." "Go on.
Who are the rest ?" "Raggles, Culver, Pauncefote, Smith, Gosse, Starkey, Crisp, Calverly, Strahan, Jobling, Cazenove, and--well, I thought of sticking down one of you three for the twelfth." "Thanks," said Dick.
"We aren't particular, are we, you chaps ?" "I'm not," said Coote.
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