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Updated: June 18, 2025
A man who has been dropped is a "bilger," whether he comes back or not. A "bilger" is further described as "one who used to be in the game, and is now only on the outside looking in." Dave Darrin's standing for the year was two-eighty-seven. Dan's was two-eighty-two. None of these young men were in the "savvy" section, but all had passed with sufficient credit for the first year.
"Doesn't it feel fine to be a bilger?" gulped Dalzell, staring at the floor. A "bilger," as has been already explained, is a midshipman who has failed and has been dropped. "Oh, but you're not a bilger, yet!" cried Darrin, leaping up and resting both hands on his chum's shoulder. "What's the odds?" demanded Dan grimly.
When I returned home to dinner at 7.30, Mary waited upon us in sullen silence. After dinner I called her in, gave her a week's wages in lieu of notice, and told her to get out of the house as a nuisance. Kate went outside and wept. From that day the Bilger family proved a curse to me.
I said I should bear him in mind, and, after helping him to release his umbrella, saw him down the steps and watched him disappear. 'Thank Heaven! I said to Kate, 'we have seen the last of him. I was bitterly mistaken, for next morning when I entered the office, Bilger was there awaiting me, outside the sub-editor's room.
Presently he extracted a dirty card and handed it to me, with a bow, which he effected by doubling himself on his stomach over the friendly gamp, and remained in that position, swaying to and fro, for quite ten seconds. I read the card: MR HORATIO BILGER Journalist and Littérateur 4a Kellet Street, Darlinghurst, Sydney
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