It is the eve of a Euripides exam and Bradshaw has a plan to avoid preparation. He just needs to know who is setting the exam ...
| Frederick Wackerbath Bradshaw | a junior boy, fond of swindling masters |
| Kendal | a junior boy |
| Mr Mellish | a master |
| Mr Prater | another master |
| White | a junior boy |
| Ponsonby | a boy in the Upper Fifth |
First published July 1902 in the Captain.
Euripides
- (480-406 BC) Greek writer of tragic plays.
Cock-house team
- probably the best house team, cock-something usually meaning the best something.
Rider Haggard
- (1856-1925) author of adventure stories including She. Hence the cryptic crossword clue 'haggard heroine' = 'she'.
'Mellish'll give you beans.'
- he'll give you a licking, a good hiding or beating. Possibly from the French proverb 'If he gives me peas, I will give him beans'.
Livy
- Titus Livius (59 BC - 17 AD), a Roman historian.
Homer
- one or more ancient Greek writers of the Iliad and the Odyssey.
'[he] then sprang, like the cat in the poem, "all claws", upon an unfortunate individual who had scored twenty-nine.'
- C. S. Calverley, Sad Memories.
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