(Sensation.) Yes, you may gape, but it's a fact! Of course, I can't beat Smedley for the gold medal.

(Yes, have a try!) Rather! I mean to try; and Smedley will have to put on steam.

(Loud cheers.) Then Stafford is going to cut out Branscombe--( Boo-hoo!)--for the Melton Scholarship, and Barnworth will get the vacant Cavendish Scholarship, and Wake and Ranger and Sherriff and Wignet are going to walk off with all the Fifth-form prizes; and Herapath will pull off the Swift Exhibition, and Sir Digby Oakshott, Baronet .-- (tremendous cheers)--will win the Shell History medal." "I say!" said the baronet, mopping his face vehemently; "that's the first I've heard about that!" "Yes, and our Babies are going to show the way, too!" continued the captain; "and on prize-day we'll crowd up and cheer them when they toddle up to take their prizes.

(Laughter and cheers.) That's all I want to say.

(Laughter and applause.) Some of you will say I'm cracked.