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Yet none of our chaps died, that I can remember." "Talkin' of baths," said McTurk, with a chuckle, "'member our bath in Number Five, Beetle, the night Rabbits-Eggs rocked King? What wouldn't I give to see old Stalky now! He is the only one of the two Studies not here." "Stalky is the great man of his Century," said Dick Four. "How d'you know?" I asked. "How do I know?" said Dick Four, scornfully.
And Rabbits-Eggs told King to poultice his nose! Did you hit Rabbits-Eggs, Stalky?" "Did I jolly well not? Tweaked him all over. Did you hear him curse? Oh, I shall be sick in a minute if I don't stop."
There was much broken glass on the window-seat; the china basket McTurk's aversion cracked to flinders, had dropped her musk plant and its earth over the red rep cushions; Manders minor was bleeding profusely from a cut on the cheek-bone; and King, using strange words, every one of which Beetle treasured, ran forth to find the school-sergeant, that Rabbits-Eggs might be instantly cast into jail.
We've got turned out for that already." "Do you chaps mean to say you didn't make Rabbits-Eggs drunk and bribe him to rock King's rooms?" "Bribe him? No, that I'll swear we didn't," said Stalky, with a relieved heart, for he loved not to tell lies. "What a low mind you've got, Pussy! We've been down having a bath. Did Rabbits-Eggs rock King? Strong, perseverin' man King? Shockin'!" "Awf'ly.
King's frothing at the mouth. There's bell for prayers. Come on." "Wait a sec," said Stalky, continuing the conversation in a loud and cheerful voice, as they descended the stairs. "What did Rabbits-Eggs rock King for?" "I know," said Beetle, as they passed King's open door. "I was in his study." "Hush, you ass!" hissed the Emperor of China.
Far down the steep-banked Devonshire lane he heard the husky hoot of the carrier's horn. There was a ghost of melody in it, as it might have been the wind in a gin-bottle essaying to sing, "It's a way we have in the Army." Stalky smiled a tight-lipped smile, and at extreme range opened fire: the old horse half wheeled in the shafts. "Where he gwaine tu?" hiccoughed Rabbits-Eggs.
There were hope and the prospect of revenge. He would embody the suggestion about the nose in deathless verse. King threw up the window, and sternly rebuked Rabbits-Eggs. But the carrier was beyond fear or fawning. He had descended from the cart, and was stooping by the roadside. It all fell swiftly as a dream.
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