[The Cock-House at Fellsgarth by Talbot Baines Reed]@TWC D-Link bookThe Cock-House at Fellsgarth CHAPTER SEVEN 8/15
"No side ?" Whereupon the witness stopped short triumphantly, like an athlete who has just won his race by a neck. "Come," said the judge, "this is getting interesting.
Who's the next witness? Are any of our fellows who were collared here ?" "Rather--young Rix is one." "Please, Dangle," said the prisoner, "I didn't touch anybody.
I was-- that is--" "Don't tell crams," said Percy, "it's a bad habit." "Biz had better go into the witness-box," said the judge. "What about the jury ?" asked that functionary. "Oh, I'd keep the place warm," volunteered Percy. Whereupon Rix quitted his hassock, and entered the fender. "I and Slingsby got nailed by a Classic cad outside our form door.
I kicked him on the shins, though," said he. "What Classic cad!" "Oh, I don't know; a new kid with sandy hair, a horrid lout.
It was Wally's room we were taken to, and they fooled us about high tea and that sort of thing.
<<Back Index Next>> D-Link book Top TWC mobile books
|