We all miss old Wyndham,"-- (loud cheers)--"but I'm sure Riddell will be a worthy successor to him in the chair of this House." Coates having said, "I beg to second the motion," Mr Isaacs put it to the meeting, and asked if there was any amendment.

Whereupon Game rose, amid loud cheers from all quarters.
Game, as has already been said, was an honest fellow.

He meant what he said, and generally said what he meant.

He was fully convinced in his own mind that Willoughby would go to the dogs under the new captain, and therefore if Riddell had been his own twin-brother he would have protested against him all the same.
"I beg to move an amendment," he said, "and it is this: That Mr Bloomfield be appointed Speaker of this House instead of Mr Riddell." (It will be noticed by the way that when Willoughby sat in Parliament everybody was "Mr") "And the reason I do so is because I consider Mr Bloomfield ought to be captain of the school instead of Mr Riddell.
(Loud Parrett cheers.) I've nothing to say against Mr Riddell--( cheers from the schoolhouse)--except that I don't consider he's the right man in the right place.

(Great applause.) He's been made captain against our wishes,"-- ("Hear, hear," and "Oh, oh!")--"and we can't help it.