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He decreed a new and narrower set of bounds the infection had been traced to an out-lying farmhouse urged the prefects severely to lick all trespassers, and promised extra attentions from his own hand. There were no words bad enough for Stettson major, quarantined at his mother's house, who had lowered the school-average of health. This he said in the gymnasium after prayers.
Found him makin' love to Stettson major's mother. That was her in the lane I heard her. And so we were ordered a lickin' before a day-boy's mother. Bony old widow, too," said McTurk. "Anything else you'd like to find out?" "I don't care. I swear I'll get even with him some day," Stalky growled. "Looks like it," said McTurk.
But I see you won't." "Won't we, though! Half a shake, Padre Sahib, till we get our towels, and nous sommes avec vous!" Easter term was but a month old when Stettson major, a day-boy, contracted diphtheria, and the Head was very angry.
As they swaggered woodenly behind the teams substitutes do not rank as equals of hairy men they passed a pony-carriage near the wall, and a husky voice cried, "Well played. Oh, played indeed!" It was Stettson major, white-checked and hollow-eyed, who had fought his way to the ground under escort of an impatient coachman. "Hullo, Stettson," said Stalky, checking. "Is it safe to come near you yet?"
"Well, it was all Stettson major's fault. If he hadn't gone an' got diphtheria 'twouldn't have happened. But don't you think it rather rummy the Head droppin' on us that way?" "Shut up! You're dead!" said Beetle. "We've chopped your spurs off your beastly heels. We've cocked your shield upside down and -and I don't think you ought to be allowed to brew for a month." "Oh, stop jawin' at me.
The Head!" That call stilled the tumult for a minute, and Stalky, leaping to a desk, shouted, "He went and sucked the diphtheria stuff out of Stettson major's throat when we thought he was in town. Stop rotting, you asses! Stettson major would have croaked if the Head hadn't done it. The Head might have died himself.