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piece of salmon at 23. pd. a pound, lamb, green peas and young 

 potatoes, a magnificent ice pudding, which is, I think, the best 

 dish of the kind there is, combining all the merits of a trifle 

 with those of ices. We finished up with pine apples and had a 

 capital brew of claret cup. 



After Prayers we went to Holden's room, and commenced a 

 grand squirting match with garden syringes, which we had got 

 for various purposes. 



Still and I were attacking Stuart Wortley, and perfectly drenched 

 him, when suddenly Still got in between S. W. and me just as I 

 was squirting. Of course he received the contents in the nape 

 of the neck. 



He then thought I had turned against him, and instantly with 

 S. W. made at me. My squirt was empty, and there was no more 

 water. I fled out of the room door into the passage, which was 

 quite dark excepting for the light coming from the room. 



About three yards from the door I came violently in contact 

 with someone, insomuch that I knocked my squirt out of my 

 hand, and sent the person staggering against the whitewashed wall. 

 The next moment I saw it was Mr Elsee, and fled, before I was 

 distinguished, round the corner. Still, however, thought the 

 figure was me ; and, bent on vengeance, with a triumphant shout 

 of " Hi ! " he discharged the whole contents of a large garden 

 syringe into the face of Mr Elsee. He then saw who it was and 

 rushed past him and escaped to where I was. Stuart Wortley 

 was the only one he made out, and we heard him say : " Stuart 

 Wortley, there are limits to these follies ! " 



Then Stuart Wortley also fled. We heard him come striding 

 after us round the passages, but as, of course, he thought it un- 

 dignified to run, we escaped him and were soon in bed. The 

 worst of it was, as we went round the passages with him in pursuit, 

 we could not help bursting out into fits of laughter. He has not 

 as yet said anything, and I dare say he will not, but whatever 

 he does say or do will be more than compensated by the sport we 

 had. I don't think I ever laughed so much in my life. 



Yours affect. 



W. ALLISON. 



P.S. I have saved 5 from the general wreck and sent it to 

 Tom to pay various dog expenses. 



It might be thought from the above that Kingcraft's 

 Derby victory was fraught with evil consequences for 

 some of us, but Stuart Wortley is now Lord Stuart of 

 Wortley, and never took to gambling, while Still is one of 



