ed the company. "Yes," said King; "and
it's just as bad here. The new monitors pull you up for everything.
You can't even chuck boots about in the passage but they are down on
you. It was bad enough when Game and that lot were monitors, but ever
since they've been turned out and the new chaps stuck in it's worse."

"And they say it's just as bad in Welch's," said Wakefield. "You know,"
said Parson, profoundly, pouring himself out a fresh cup--"you know, if
Riddell and Bloomfield ever took it into their heads to pull together,
we'd have an awful time of it."

The bare possibility of such a calamity was enough to sober even the
wildest spirit present.

"These seniors are a nuisance," said Telson, after a pause; "and the
worst of it is, we can't well pay them out."

"Not in school, or in the Big either," said King. "We might stick
nettles in their beds, you know," suggested Bosher, "or something of
that sort."

"Rather low, that," said Parson, "and not much fun."

"Would leeches be better?" said Bosher, who had lately been giving
himself to scientific investigation.

It was considered leeches might not be bad, but there was rather too
much uncertainty about their mode of action. That was a sort of thing
more in Cusack's and the Welchers' line than the present company's.

"I tell you what," said Telson, struck with an idea, "we might get at
them in Parliament; they're always so jolly fond of talking about fair
play there, and every one being equal. Do you know, I think we might
have a little fling there!"

"Not at all a bad idea," said Parson, admiringly--"jolly fine idea! We
can do what those cads do in the newspapers--obstruct the business!
Rattling idea!"

"Yes; and fancy Messrs. Telson, Parson, Bosher, and Co. being
suspended," said King.

"They couldn't do it, I tell you," said Bosher; "we'd kick up a shine
about freedom of speech, and all that. Anyhow, it would be rather a
spree, whether we were kicked out or not. We'd be a `party' you know!"

The idea took, and an animated consultation took place. Parson, for a
junior, was very well up in the "rules of the House," and at his
suggestion the notice-paper for to-morrow's assembly was got hold of and
filled with "amendments."

"Call them amendments," said he, "and they can't say anything."

"Oh, all serene," said Telson, who had implicit confidence in his
friend.

"For instance, here you are," said Parson. "`Mr Coates to move that
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