ten o'clock
And the two second bowlers were Game and Porter , also one from each house . This minute analysis might doubtless have been continued down to the cover-points . At any rate , it was manifest the two houses were very evenly divided , both as regarded merit and place , and it would therefore be easy to see which contributed most to the service of the school . The Rockshire men arrived by the ten o'clock train , and were met as usual by the Willoughby omnibus at the station . As they alighted and proceeded to stroll in a long procession across the Big to their tent , they were regarded with much awe and curiosity by the small boys assembled to witness their advent , some of whom were quite at a loss to understand how boys like themselves could ever expect not to be beaten by great whiskered heroes like these . Even the young Welchers , who had contrived to be practising close to the line of march , felt awed in their presence , and made a most hideous hash of the little exhibition with which they had intended to astonish their visitors . The self-confident ease of these Rockshire men was even a trifle discouraging for a few of the school heroes themselves , who looked on nervously as their rivals coolly went up and inspected the wickets and criticised the pitch , and then proceeded , laughing among themselves , towards the pavilion .