'You don't know much,' said Bradshaw, with equal honesty.     

       'I don't,' I replied. 'Bradshaw, you're a great man, but you missed the best part of it all.'     

       'What, the Thucydides paper?' asked he with a grin.     

       'No, you missed seeing Gerard jump quite six feet.'     

       Bradshaw's face expressed keen disappointment.     

       'No, did he really? Oh, I say, I wish I'd seen it.'     

       The moral of which is that the wicked do not always prosper. If Bradshaw had not been in the Museum, he might have seen Gerard jump six feet, which would have made him happy for weeks. On second thoughts, though, that does not work out quite right, for if Bradshaw had not been in the Museum, Gerard would not have jumped at all. No, better put it this way. I was virtuous, and I had the pleasure of witnessing the sight I have referred to. But then there was the Thucydides paper, which Bradshaw missed but which I did not. No. On consideration, the moral of this story shall be withdrawn and submitted to a committee of experts. Perhaps they will be able to say what it is.     

  

  

       7 — THE BABE AND THE DRAGON     

       The annual inter-house football cup at St Austin's lay between Dacre's, who were the holders, and Merevale's, who had been runner-up in the previous year, and had won it altogether three times out of the last five. The cup was something of a tradition in Merevale's, but of late Dacre's had become serious rivals, and, as has been said before, were the present holders.     

       This year there was not much to choose between the two teams. Dacre's had three of the First Fifteen and two of the Second; Merevale's two of the First and four of the Second. St Austin's being not altogether a boarding-school, many of the brightest stars of the teams were day boys, and there was, of course, always the chance that one of these would suddenly see the folly of his ways, reform, and become a member of a House.     

       This 

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