17/19 I think he's right to give them some play." "Well, perhaps you're right, Cress; but I'm afraid I shan't be as easy with them as Ponty. My opinion is, that if you give them an inch they'll take an ell. By the way, that was a queer thing about Pledge. He's a low cad--poor Forbes owed his expulsion last term to him, I'm positive. He simply set himself to drag him down, and he did it." "Pity he's such a good bowler, one's bound to keep him in the eleven, and the fellows always swear by the eleven. |