mumchancer

Updated: May 13, 2025

The boys describe him as stumbling into the room mouthing some of those tempered expletives irritable schoolmasters accustom themselves to use lest worse befall. "Wretched mumchancer!" he said. "Where's Mr. Plattner?" The boys are agreed on the very words. Where's Mr. Plattner? That was a question that was to be repeated many times in the next few days.

H. G. (Herbert George) Wells - The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories