He was going to
enlist in the Boer War, he hates the English so. Down on them
the worst way. And say, what do you think? Last year, at
Caledonia, he won the first prize for individual ladder scaling.
And what do you suppose the first prize was? A picture of Queen
Victoria. Isn't that Caledonia all over? there's a kind of
rivalry between our boys and the Caledonias.
Here they come now. Those are the Caledonian. Tell by the truck
. . . . Do you think so? I don't think they're anything so very
much. Nix. You'll never do it. Look at the way they run with
their heads up. That shows they're all winded. Look at the clumsy
way they got the ladder off the wagon. Blap! The judge thought it
was coming through the boards on him. Oh, pretty good, pretty good,
but you just wait till you see our boys. Look at the fool hanging
there on the ladder waiting till the time is announced. Isn't that
Caledonia all over? Yah! Come down! Come down! What is it?
Twenty-five seconds. What's the record? Twenty-four and four-fifths?
Oh, well, it isn't so bad for Caledonia, but you just wait and see
what our boys do. Hear those yaps from Caledonia yell! If there's
anything I despise it is for a man to whoop and holler and make a
public spectacle of himself. Who's this? Oh, the Radnors.
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