RED PAINT AT
OXFORD
Sketches
BY
“Pish” and “Tush”
London
GREENING & CO., LTD.
20 CECIL COURT, CHARING CROSS ROAD
1904
These little sketches must not be taken too seriously, and itmust not be imagined that they describe the most prominentcharacteristics of the good sportsmen portrayed in them. Wehave only turned our attention to the lightest side of their’Varsity careers because we think that the most amusing; butnearly every one of the Undergrads referred to has distinguishedhimself in some less lurid but more useful way. Five ‘Blues’altogether have been amassed among the gentlemen who moveabout and have their being herein; while the Pilot upset theodds of 33 to 1 freely laid against him, scraped through on therails with a rush at the finish, and secured a creditable ‘First.’When he is Archbishop of Canterbury, Freddy hopes to be inthe Cabinet, and, it appears already during the short year thathas elapsed since we all ‘went down,’ that Squiff is well on hisway to ruling a Province in India. Who knows whether he andthe Pilot, in alliance, may not yet be the means of convertingthat most hearty blot of Ink the Rajah of Jellipore!
ONE AUTHOR.
THE OTHER.
London, May, 1904.
| PAGE. | ||
| I. | ON MOTORING TO TOWN | 1 |
| II. | A QUIET EVENING | 15 |
| III. | CONCERNING THE THEATRE | 27 |
| IV. | THE MUTUAL HELP SOCIETY | 53 |
| V. | ON THE STRENUOUSNESS OF LIFE | 67 |
| VI. | RUGGER NIGHT | 87 |
| VII. | HOW WE RAGGED “THE SUBURBAN” | 105 |
| VIII. | AN “EIGHTS’ WEEK” | 119 |
Freddy said it was very cheap, and so I went, havingonly seven and sixpence, which I had borrowed fromour landlady.
Freddy had less.
Soon after eight I was aroused by Freddy’s acrobatictreble and the shrieks of an impossible check suit.
He mentioned that he was coming to breakfast withme as the men in his digs never came down till ten.
Just then the Pilot announced in a loud and penetratingvoice that ‘a perspiring stinkocar had arrivedoutside’ and so I hastened on my dressing to the accompanimentof ‘The Miller’s Daughter,’ played by Freddywith one finger