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At 3 p.m. Sir Felix Felix-Williams , Baronet , would arrive to distribute the prizes . He would be attended by a crowd of ladies and gentlemen ; and the speeches , delivered beneath an awning on the upper deck , would be fully reported next day in the local newspapers . The weather was propitious . Just now -LRB- 11 a.m. -RRB- some half a dozen of the elder boys , attired in dirty white dungaree and barefooted , were engaged in swabbing out what , in her sea-going days , had been the _ Egeria 's _ ward-room , making ready to set out tables for an afternoon tea to follow the ceremony . They were nominally under supervision of the ship 's Schoolmaster , who , however , had gone off to unpack a hamper of flowers -- the gift of an enthusiastic subscriber . `` Step this way , ` Erbert ` Enery Bates . '' `` You go to hell , Link Andrew ! ''