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THE BABE, B.A.
The time has come, the showman said, To look at many things, At Deans and tea and men and Babes At Cambridge and at King's. LIGHT-BLUE LYRICS.
"And I maintain," said Reggie, flourishing the Britannia-metal teapot , "that it's better to have played and lost than never--"
The teapot--one of those in which the handle is invariably the hottest part--had just been filled up with boiling water, and a clear and fervid amber stream flew bounteously out of its spout on to the bare knees of one of those who had played and lost. Thereupon a confused noise arose, and Reggie's sentence has never been finished.
After a short but violent interlude, the confused noise ceased by tacit consent, as suddenly as it had begun; Ealing helped Reggie to pick up the broken fragments that remained, and the latter had to drink his tea out of a pint glass.
"To think that a mere game of football should lead to such disastrous consequences," he remarked. "Why does tea out of a glass taste like hot Gregory powder?"
"I never drank hot Gregory powder; what does it taste like?"
"Why, like tea out of a glass," said Reggie brilliantly.
"Reggie, if you want to rag again, you've only got to say so."
Ealing threw into a corner the napkin with which he had been drying his knees and stocking after the tea-deluge, and as he had finished, took out a pipe, and proceeded to fill it.
"That pig of a half-back caught me a frightful hack on the shin," he said.
"Well, you kicked him in the stomach later on," said Reggie consolingly. "That's always something to fall back on. Besides he did it by accident, and it certainly looked as if you did it on purpose. Of course it may only have been sheer clumsiness."
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