Chapter 38

"D'you mean to say that fellows like Claybody have more right to be here?" "Yes. I think they have, because they're fighters and we're only survivals. They will disappear, too, unless they learn their lesson. . . . You see, for a thousand years we have been going on here, and other people like us, but we only endured because we were alive. We have the usual conventional motto on our coat of arms--_Pro Deo et Rege_--a Heralds' College invention. But our Gaelic motto was very different--it was 'Sons of Dogs, come and…