It may come by and by--" "We must see that everybody backs up in this," said Brinkman.

"One traitor would spoil everything." "That's what Yorke said on Saturday, wasn't it ?" asked Fullerton innocently, "At least, he said two traitors.

Yorke will not see that what's right for one fellow is naughty for another." "Look here, Fullerton," said Clapperton, who was sensitive enough to feel the sting of all this, "you don't suppose we're doing this for fun, do you?
Will you promise not to play on Saturday, even if you are asked ?" "What if I don't ?" said Fullerton.
"You won't find it particularly comfortable on this side of the School, that's all," said Brinkman.
Fullerton meditated and turned the matter over.
"I think on the whole," said he, mimicking Clapperton, "that as this is for the highest good of the School, and as everybody is to be all the better in the long run, and as we're all going to be noble and sacrifice ourselves together, you may put me down as not playing on Saturday.
_Dulce et decorum est pro patria_--I beg pardon, I'm not on the Classic side yet." The other players named on the list consented more or less reluctantly to follow the same example.

After morning school, therefore, when the fellows looked at the notice board, they saw, to their bewilderment, the names of the four Modern fellows struck out and the following note appended to the captain's list-- "Notice.
"The following players protest against the exclusion of two names from the above list, and decline to play on Saturday, viz., Brinkman, Fullerton, Ramshaw major, and Smith." Underneath this, a juvenile hand had carefully inscribed in bold characters-- "Jolly good riddance of bad rubbish." Signed, "Wheatfield, W., D'Arcy, Ashby, Fisher minor." Fisher minor, who signed this latter manifesto by proxy had hastened to carry the news of it to his brother.
"The cads!" said the junior.

"We are sure to be beaten; I shall never dare to get Rollitt twice running." "What do you mean ?" asked the elder brother, turning round.
"Oh, don't tell," said Fisher minor, "I didn't mean to say anything; you see, I thought he wouldn't fly out, so I asked him last time." "You! What do you know of Rollitt?
Why should he play to oblige you ?" Fisher minor, wishing he had not mentioned Rollitt's name, related, somewhat apologetically, the story of the adventure on the Shayle.
"Why," said the elder brother, "you saved his life, young 'un.