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`` Yes , and I must say we have you to thank for that , old boy . Those runs before breakfast that used to make Monty so savage have done us a good turn by keeping Franklin fit , not to mention the occasional tubbing we have given him . '' `` Aye , he 's not bad ; and if the rest of the crew buck up well we may yet do things . Now good-bye , Dale , until seven o'clock ! See that every man is ready stripped sharp to time for me , for I must now see Benson , and tell him all my plans . '' The further news that Benson 's were going out again with their spare man at Three , coming upon the sensational story of the quarrel between Stroke and Seven , spread like wildfire through the school . Every boy who was at all interested in the Eights -- and who was not ?