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They exchanged whiffs in silence. "You met my people, didn't you?" said Jolly. "They're coming up to-morrow." Val grew a little red. "Really! I can give you a rare good tip for the Manchester November handicap." "Thanks, I only take interest in the classic races." "You can't make any money over them," said Val. "I hate the ring," said Jolly; "there's such a row and stink. I like the paddock."
Most of the Russians of this class live on potatoes and garlic, with oil, which they eat with their bread, so that they always stink, although it is their habit to take a bath every Saturday.
But Ranjoor Singh stood up with his head above the trench and began shouting to the Germans. They answered him. Then, to our utter astonishment, he tore the shirt from a dead man, tied it to a rifle, and held it up. The Germans cheered and laughed, but we made never a sound. We were bewildered sick from the stink and weariness and thirst and lack of food.
Through the first three months of the siege no local event was awaited with more interest than the publication of a 'Ladysmith Lyre, and the weary defenders had many a good laugh at its witticisms. Sun, stink, and sickness harassed the beleaguered. The bombardment was perpetual, the relief always delayed; hope again and again deferred.
"Said the king, 'Here is a figure of those who are clothed in glory and honour, and make great display of power and glory, but within is the stink of dead men's bones and works of iniquity. Next, he commanded the pitched and tarred caskets also to be opened, and delighted the company with the beauty and sweet savour of their stores. And he said unto them, 'Know ye to whom these are like?
"And all those 'ouses and streets and ways used to be full of people before the War in the Air and the Famine and the Purple Death. They used to be full of people, Teddy, and then came a time when they was full of corpses, when you couldn't go a mile that way before the stink of 'em drove you back. It was the Purple Death 'ad killed 'em every one. The cats and dogs and 'ens and vermin caught it.
"It's not that kind of stink I mean, Quashy; quite another sort," said Pedro, who felt unequal to the task of explanation. "But look sharp; we must lend the Indians a helping hand to-night." "But I don't know nuffin about it," said Quashy, "an' a man what don't know what to do is on'y in de way ob oder peepil."
You cannot conceive what a cold perspiration it puts me in, to hear one dashed down just before me; as Thomson says, with a little alteration: "Hear nightly dashed, amid the perilous street, The fragrant stink pot." This furnishes food for innumerable dogs, that belong to nobody, and annoy everybody. If they did not devour it, the quantities would breed a pestilence.
Before Fyodor had time to say good-morning the contents of the mortar suddenly flared up and burned with a bright red flame; there was a stink of sulphur and burnt feathers, and the room was filled with a thick pink smoke, so that Fyodor sneezed five times; and as he returned home afterwards, he thought: "Anyone who feared God would not have anything to do with things like that."
To smell, though well, is to stink: "Rides nos, Coracine, nil olentes Malo, quam bene olere, nil olere." And elsewhere: "Posthume, non bene olet, qui bene semper olet."
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