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Here's food for powder. Strike for your hearths an' homes, you young brutes an' be jolly quick about it." "Still he isn't happy," said McTurk. "For the way we have with our Army Is the way we have with our Navy." Here Beetle joined in. They had found the poem in an old volume of "Punch," and it seemed to cover the situation: "An' both of 'em led to adversity, Which nobody can deny!"

They were formed into fours, marched, wheeled, and countermarched, the spell of ordered motion strong on them. As Foxy said, they had been at it a long time. The gymnasium door opened, revealing McTurk in charge of an old gentleman. The Sergeant, leading a wheel, did not see. "Not so bad," he murmured. "Not 'arf so bad. The pivot-man of the wheel honly marks time, Muster Swayne.

What howlin' Lazarites they are! No house is justified in makin' itself a stench in the nostrils of decent " "High-minded, pure-souled boys. Do you burn with remorse and regret?" said McTurk, as they hastened to meet the house coming up from the sea. King had deserted it, so speech was unfettered. Round its front played a crowd of skirmishers all houses mixed flying, reforming, shrieking insults.

Oh, Lord, I wish I could stop laughin'," said Beetle. "Stinks! Hi, stinks! Clammy ones!" McTurk gasped as he regained his place. "And" the exquisite humor of it brought them sliding down together in a tangle "it's all for the honor of the house, too!" "An' they're holdin' another meeting on us," Stalky panted, his knees in the ditch and his face in the long grass.

There is a limit one finds it by experience, Beetle beyond which it is never safe to pursue private vendettas, because don't move sooner or later one comes into collision with the higher authority, who has studied the animal. Et ego McTurk, please in Arcadia vixi. There's a certain flagrant injustice about this that ought to appeal to your temperament. And that's all!

Because if you ain't, this chap's goin' to make you." "Hope he won't take up the whole of the evening. I suppose we've got to listen to him." "Wouldn't miss him for the world," said McTurk. "A lot of chaps thought that Romeo-Romeo woman was a bore. I didn't. I liked her! 'Member when she began to hiccough in the middle of it? P'raps he'll hiccough.

"Then cut along and call a prefects' meeting," said McTurk, knowing Tulke's weakness. The prefect became inarticulate with rage. "Mustn't yell at the Fifth that way," said Stalky. "It's vile bad form." "Cough it up, ducky!" McTurk said calmly. "I I want to know what you chaps are doing out of bounds?" This with an important flourish of his ground-ash. "Ah," said Stalky. "Now we're gettin' at it.

Did you hear the glass?" "Why, he he he," shrieked McTurk, one trembling finger pointed at Beetle. "Why, I I I was through it all," Beetle howled; "in his study, being jawed." "Oh, my soul!" said Stalky with a yell, disappearing under water. "The the glass was nothing. Manders minor's head's cut open. La la lamp upset all over the rug. Blood on the books and papers. The gum! The gum! The gum!

Wicked little kids! It all comes of havin' married house-masters, I think." "A Daniel come to judgment." "But it does," McTurk interrupted. "I've met chaps in the holidays, an' they've told me the same thing. It looks awfully pretty for one's people to see a nice separate house with a nice lady in charge, an' all that. But it isn't.

Crusoe, at sight of the footprint, did not act more swiftly than Stalky. He removed the pipes, swept up all loose match-ends, and departed to warn Beetle and McTurk.