"We sent young Lawkins off to tell Crossfield what was going on, and directly Ashley sat down old Telson got up and moved an amendment.

They tried to cry him down, but they couldn't do it, could they ?" "Rather not," said Telson, proudly.

"I stuck there like a leech, and the fellows all yelled too, so that nobody could hear any one speak.

We kept on singing out `Hole in the corner! Hole in the corner!' for about twenty minutes, and there weren't enough of them to turn us out.

Then they tried to get round us by being civil, but we were up to that dodge.
Parson went on after me, and then old Bosher, and then King, and then Wakefield, and when he'd done I started again." "You should have seen how jolly wild they got!" cried Parson.