Name: The Head of Kay's — Chapter 8. A NIGHT ADVENTURE—THE DETHRONEMENT OF FENN
Author: P. G. Wodehouse

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P. G. Wodehouse, The Head of Kay's — Chapter 8. A NIGHT ADVENTURE—THE DETHRONEMENT OF FENN (1905)

“ However courageous one may be, it is difficult not to speculate on the possible horrors which may spring out on one from the darkness. That feeling that there is somebody—or something—just behind one can only be experienced in all its force by a sentry on an inky night at camp. And the thought that, of all the hundreds there, he and two others are the only ones awake, puts a sort of finishing touch to the unpleasantness of the situation.
Kennedy was not a particularly imaginative youth, but he looked forward with no little eagerness to the time when he should be relieved. ”

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P. G. Wodehouse, The Head of Kay's — Chapter 8. A NIGHT ADVENTURE—THE DETHRONEMENT OF FENN (1905)

“ He stopped and waited, peering into the darkness in a futile endeavour to catch a glimpse of his man. But the night was too black for the keenest eye to penetrate it. A slight thud put him on the right track. ”

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P. G. Wodehouse, The Head of Kay's — Chapter 8. A NIGHT ADVENTURE—THE DETHRONEMENT OF FENN (1905)

“ And there were all the pleasures of a first night after the holidays to look forward to, when you dashed from one friend's study to another's, comparing notes, and explaining—five or six of you at a time—what a good time you had had in the holidays. This was always a pleasant ceremony at Blackburn's, where all the prefects were intimate friends, and all good sorts, without that liberal admixture of weeds, worms, and outsiders which marred the list of prefects in most of the other houses. ”

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P. G. Wodehouse, The Head of Kay's — Chapter 8. A NIGHT ADVENTURE—THE DETHRONEMENT OF FENN (1905)

“ One of the things which make life on this planet more or less agreeable is the speed with which alarums, excursions, excitement, and rows generally, blow over. A nine-days' wonder has to be a big business to last out its full time nowadays. As a rule the third day sees the end of it, and the public rushes whooping after some other hare that has been started for its benefit. The guard-tent row, as far as the bulk of camp was concerned, lasted exactly two days ”

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P. G. Wodehouse, The Head of Kay's — Chapter 8. A NIGHT ADVENTURE—THE DETHRONEMENT OF FENN (1905)

“ It happened that Kennedy was on sentry-go that night. The manner of sentry-go is thus. At seven in the evening the guard falls in, and patrols the fringe of the camp in relays till seven in the morning. A guard consists of a sergeant, a corporal, and ten men. They are on duty for two hours at a time, with intervals of four hours between each spell, in which intervals they sleep the sleep of tired men in the guard-tent, unless, as happened on the occasion previously described, some miscreant takes it upon himself to loose the ropes. ”

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P. G. Wodehouse, The Head of Kay's — Chapter 8. A NIGHT ADVENTURE—THE DETHRONEMENT OF FENN (1905)

“ Camp does not allow a great deal of leisure for the minding of other people's businesses. But this reflection did not occur to Walton, and he regarded Kennedy, whenever chance or his duties brought him into the neighbourhood of that worthy's tent, with a suspicion which increased whenever the latter looked at him. ”

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