(Cheers.) I agree with him--( tremendous Parrett's cheers, and consternation of schoolhouse)--I don't think Mr Riddell is fit to be captain.

He doesn't think so himself." ("Hear, hear!" from Riddell, and laughter.) "But the gentleman says Mr Bloomfield is the man.

(Loud cheers.) I don't agree with that at all.

Mr Riddell knows very little about sports, though I do hear he was seen coxing a schoolhouse boat this morning.

(Derisive cheers.) Mr Bloomfield knows almost as little about classics! (Loud laughter from the schoolhouse.) Why, gentlemen, do you mean to say you think a fellow who couldn't translate `Balbus hopped over a wall' without looking up three words in a lexicon is fit to be a Willoughby captain ?" (Laughter from the juniors, and cries of "Time!" from Parretts.) "I say not.