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''Notice anything wrong with my beak? Stalky replied. 'Pater went Berserk after call-over, and fell on a lot of us for jesting with him about his impot. You ought to see Malpass's eye. 'You mean that Pater fought? said Mullins. 'Like a devil. Then he nearly went to sleep in our study just now. I expect he'll be all right when he wakes up. Rummy business! Conscientious old bargee.
Ansell, too, had been blessed with relatives in the service, and slowly, in a lazy drawl his style was more reflective than Stalky's descended the abysmal depths of personality. "Blood to me!" he shouted triumphantly. "You couldn't stand it, either." Stalky was a rich red, and his Snider shook visibly.
We use a biscuit-box on two bicycle wheels. I only got the money for that" he patted the stuff "by a pure fluke." "How much did it cost?" asked Strickland. "With seed and machinery about two hundred pounds. I had the labour done by cannibals." "That sounds promising." Stalky reached for a fresh cigarette. "No, thank you," said Agnes. "I've been at Weston-super-Mare a little too long for cannibals.
"Naturally, Cathcart not being a fool, even if he is a Political, let Stalky do his shooting within fifteen miles of Fort Everett for the next six months, and I always understood they and Rutton Singh and the prisoner were as thick as thieves. Then Stalky loafed back to his regiment, I believe. I've never seen him since." "I have, though," said McTurk, swelling with pride.
You recommend this you recommend that! You say how and when we go back to our study!" "But but we thought you'd like it, Turkey. We did, indeed. You know you'll be ever so much more comfortable there." Harrison's voice was almost tearful. McTurk turned away as though to hide his emotions. "They're broke!" He hunted up Stalky and Beetle in a box-room. "They're sick!
Nothing can be more unsightly than the stalky, staring houses of our villages, with their plain gable-roofs, of a pitch neither high enough nor low enough for beauty, and disfigured, moreover, by mere excrescences of attic windows, and over the whole structure the awkward angularity, and the look of barren, mindless conformity and uniformity in the general outlines, and the meagre, frittered effect inherent in the material.
Stalky was watching the chaplain's face. "I have my doubts." Then, explosively, "On my word, for three moderately intelligent boys you aren't very observant. I suppose you were too busy making things warm for your house-master to see what lay under your noses when you were in the form-rooms last week?" "What, sir? I I swear we didn't see anything," said Beetle. "Then I'd advise you to look.
"We got into a mess up in the Khye-Kheen Hills a couple o' years ago, and Stalky pulled us through. That's all." McTurk gazed at Tertius with all an Irishman's contempt for the tongue-tied Saxon. "Heavens!" he said. "And it's you and your likes govern Ireland. Tertius, aren't you ashamed?" "Well, I can't tell a yarn. I can chip in when the other fellow starts bukhing. Ask him."
When we had eaten all the choice roots we chanced upon, we shouldered our rods and strayed off into patches of a stalky plant under whose yellow blossoms we found little crystal drops of gum. Drop by drop we gathered this nature's rock-candy, until each of us could boast of a lump the size of a small bird's egg.
Once more I trotted up to my room, changed into unseasonable unbrushed grey tweeds, put studs into a clean shirt, dug out fresh socks, handed the whole garniture over to Ipps, and returned to the hall just in time to hear Stalky say, 'I'm a stockbroker, but I have the honour to hold His Majesty's commission in a Territorial battalion. Then I felt as though I might be beginning to be repaid.
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