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Gangs of youths, to adopt the police-court term, had developed a habit of parading the streets arm-in-arm, shouting "Good old Pedder!" When these met some person or persons who did not consider Mr Pedder good and old, there was generally what the local police-force described as a "frakkus". It was in one of these frakkuses that Linton had lost a valuable tooth.
'Blow me if I don't think it's a frakkus. And," concluded Mr. Butt, with the air of one confiding a secret, "and it was a frakkus!" "And these boys actually threw you into the pond?" "Plop, sir! Mrs. Butt is drying my uniform at home at this very moment as we sit talking here, sir. She says to me, 'Why, whatever 'ave you been a-doing?
Encouraged by this appreciative reception of his story, Mr. Butt started it again, right from the beginning. "I was on my beat, sir, and I thought I heard a disturbance. I says to myself, ''Allo, I says, 'a frakkus. Lots of them all gathered together, and fighting. I says, beginning to suspect something, 'Wot's this all about, I wonder? I says.