Besides, they all go against Riddell, don't they ?" "Well, I mean to say," said Telson, falling back on to the next grievance, "your fellows ought to row us again.

We'd have rowed you again like a shot if our line had smashed.

_We_ don't funk you." "And do you think we funk you?
A pack of--I mean," added Parson, pulling up in time, "do you think we funk you ?" "Why don't you row us again, then ?" "Because there's no honour in the thing while your fellows go in for beastly low dodges like that," replied Parson.
"I tell you," said Telson, finding it very difficult to keep in with his friend, "we did not do it.

I say we didn't do it; there!" "What's the use of your saying that when you know no one but a schoolhouse fellow _could_ have done it ?" demanded his friend.
"I tell you we didn't do it," repeated Telson, "and you've got to prove we did before you say we did," added he, with triumphant emphasis.
"You've got to prove you didn't," replied Parson, not to be beaten in this line of argument.
"How can I prove we didn't when--when we didn't do it ?" cried Telson, making up in noise for what he lacked in logic.
"I knew you couldn't prove it!" said Parson, triumphant in his turn.

"I knew it was one of your blackguard--" "All right, old man, I _shall_ fight you," said Telson.
"I didn't mean, old man, really," said Parson.