human
Those fellows want me, said Dick to his friend, in a tone as much as to say,
gpt
I'm so used to holding familiar converse with the Fifth that it's really almost beginning to be a grind. But I don't like to disappoint them this time.
human
Well, how do you feel?
gpt
Oh, all right,
human
Capital run you made, said the other.
gpt
Middling, said Dick, deprecatingly.
human
I hadn't my shoes, that makes a difference.
gpt
It does,
human
Rather a nice turf track you've got,
gpt
Glad you like it. Some of the fellows growl at it; but we'll tell them you think it good.
human
We used to run a good deal at our old school, you know, said he.
gpt
Some of us, that is.
human
Ah, you're just the man we want for the Harriers. They're badly off for a whipper-in; and we had to stop hunting all last term because we hadn't got one.
gpt
Oh!
human
Yes. But it'll be all right if you'll take it--won't it be, Birket?
gpt
Rather! said Birket.
human
He'd be a brick if he did.
gpt
I don't mind trying,
human
Will you really? Thanks, awfully! You know Cresswell? No, by the way, he's not here yet. He's in the Sixth, and has been acting as whipper-in till we got a proper chap. He'll be here in the morning. Any one will tell you where he hangs out. He'll bless you, I can tell you, for taking the job out of his hands. You never saw the pace he goes at when he tries to run, eh, Birket?
gpt
Rather not, said Birket.
human
It's a regular joke. A snail's nothing to him.
gpt
How has he managed to whip in?
human
Bless you, we've had no runs lately, that's why. But we shall make up now you've come.