Bivouac by Kwame Dawes

Author:Kwame Dawes
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ebook, book
Publisher: Akashic Books
Published: 2019-03-23T16:00:00+00:00

Unpublished notes of George Ferron Morgan

I entered Jamaica College with the mistaken notion that I was entering the school of Tom Brown’s School Days and the school (Greyfriars, I think) in Billy Bunter’s Magnet. My great shock was to find that prefects did not have studies. It took me about a term to recover from this. I was put into 2b in January 1938 and can only remember distinctly that in the term examination at Easter I got 100% in English Language, including a free composition. I do not recall any friends in that first year. We still lived in the country and I went off on my summer vacation pleased with myself at having made the third eleven at cricket. I was a fast bowler. By the third term of 1938, I had made some friends, but two stand out—PL and BE. PL was the nephew of Ethelred Erasmus Adolphus Campbell, a chemist by training but he came to be known as the fighting barrister. My sister seems to have known PL’s aunt and he was given the charge of “looking after” me. It was characteristic of him that it took him two terms to find me. When he did he pressed me into service as a courier in his endless verbal battle with Phillip Hanson. I carried the most scabrous messages between PL and Phillip Hanson, repeating precisely what each said. Fortunately, although I was the bearer of quite horrible news, I did not suffer the fate of a Greek messenger. I stopped being a courier when I became captain of the Colts cricket team in 1939. I should have learned my lesson then. Alas, I may have carried far too many messages for Hanson over the last few years. Can I blame people for mistaking me for a friend of his?

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