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To have their hero and idol thus calmly taken out of their hands and appropriated by a set of sneaking Tadpoles was more than human patience could endure! "Bah! A lot he'll care for your letting him off!" exclaimed Paul, in dire contempt. "He wouldn't touch you with a shovel." "Oh, yes, he would, though, wouldn't he, Padger?
I pelieve the enemy has poarded us in a stinkpot!" Then, directing his discourse to the steward, from whence he imagined the odour proceeded, he reprimanded him severely for the freedoms he took among gentlemen of birth, and threatened to smoke him like a padger with sulphur, if ever he should presume to offend his neighbours with such smells for the future.
"Greenfield senior's cramming too, he's been in all the afternoon." "He's not cramming, he's got a headache!" said Stephen. "Oh, yes, I dare say, don't you, Padger? Got a headache that's a nice excuse for copying out of cribs on a Sunday." "He doesn't use cribs, and I tell you he's not working!" said Stephen, indignantly. "Shut up, do you hear, or you'll get turned out, Potboy!"
"Has your brother funked it again?" demanded Bramble, in his usual conciliatory way. "He never funked, you young cad!" retorted the young brother. "Yes, he did, didn't he, Padger? That time, you know, last term. But I say, Greenfield junior, why ever's the fight not coming off?"
Bramble, however, managed to get behind Padger and the rest, and thus fortified shouted out, "Yah, boo, howling young sucking pig! go home to your mammy, or your great big cheat of a blackguard thief of a caddish big brother! Do you hear? Who stole the exam paper? Eh, Padger? Yah, boo, pack of sneaking Guinea-pigs!"
In vain they laughed the idea to scorn; in vain they argued that if for the last six months he had never said a word even to the Guinea-pigs, he would hardly now come and take up with the Tadpoles. Bramble and Padger insisted on their story. "Now, you fellows," concluded Bramble, at the end of another oration; "those who say three cheers for Greenfield senior hold up "
"And has the earth " and here he stuck, but in answer to the cheers began again, looking round for Padger to help. "I can't find the place," said Padger, very hot and flurried, and whipping over the pages of a book with his moist thumb. He got no farther. Even had he remembered the words his voice could never have risen above the laughter, which continued as long as he remained on his feet.
"She was only pe her next wife, put, ochone! ochone! why did she'll pe marry her? You would haf stapt her long aco, my lort, if she'll was your wife and you was knowing ta tamned fox and padger she was pe. Ochone! and she tidn't pe have her turk at her hench nor her sgian in her hose." He shook his hands like a despairing child, then stamped and wept in the agony of frustrated rage. Mrs.
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