“All right, it’s me then, if you like!”
“I don’t mind being in it, to give you a leg-up,” said Wally, touched by the heroism of his friend, “but you might let a chap bowl himself out, you know.”
“All right, Yorke, it was me and D’Arcy.”
“You should say I and D’Arcy,” said Ranger. “What, were you in it? Good old—”
“No, you young ass; it’s bad grammar to say me and D’Arcy were in it.”
“I never knew you were. It’s the first we’ve heard of it; isn’t it, you chaps?”
The chaps most emphatically agreed that it was.
“Let them be, Ranger,” said the captain. “There’ll be time enough for a grammar lesson after.”
“Can’t do it to-day, we’ve got syntax this afternoon,” said D’Arcy.
“Now, you youngsters, look here,” said the captain. “You may think you’re very clever; but this sort of thing is cheating, and cheating is what cads do. We don’t want any of it inside Fellsgarth. Dangle, here are the youngsters, and here is the switch; will you lick them, or shall I?”