It lasted till call-over, was renewed again directly after tea, and continued long after the speakers and audience were in bed.
Bosher got dreadfully mobbed, besides being hit on the ear with a stone and hunted several times round the playground by the anti-Radicals.
Altogether Willoughby had gone a little "off its head," so to speak, on the subject of the election.

Riddell found himself powerless to control the excitement, and the other monitors were most of them too much interested in the event themselves to be of much service.

The practice for the Rockshire match, as well as the play of the newly-started Welchers' club, was for the time completely suspended; and it was evident that until the election was over there was no prospect of seeing the school in its right mind again.
The day before the event was a busy and anxious one for the captain.
All day long fellows came applying to him on the wildest of pretexts for "permits" the following afternoon to go into town.

Pilbury, Cusack, and Philpot wanted to get their hair cut.

King and Wakefield had to get measured for boots, and to-morrow afternoon was the only time they could fix for the ceremony.