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 joker we've heard so much about has come and been seen; but I'm jolly well hanged if he has conquered! These native English are an almighty rum race!"

"I'll race him," said George Young venomously. "And I'm bled if I come in second!" The creature had driven in with Irralie Villiers. As yet this was his rankest offence in the nostrils of good George Young.

"I don't care what you fellows say," cried the fuming tutor. "That brute's not what he says he is. I've been at school with 'em, and I know!"

Jevons winked at Young.

"We know that school, eh, George? We've heard it before. We'll hear of it again; but, my faith, we'll hear a little less of the home-brewed, full-grown Englishman after this!"

"Come outside!" roared the tutor in a frenzy.

"What are you givin' us?"

"Come behind the pines and take off your