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Also he introduced Jurgis to many of the other prisoners, nearly half of whom he knew by name. The crowd had already given Jurgis a name they called him "he stinker." This was cruel, but they meant no harm by it, and he took it with a goodnatured grin.
If you could walk right into the office of the president of a state bank, and come out of it with a roll of a million, with no more effort than it needed pushing one foot in front of another, guess you'd as soon light your two dollar cigar with a hundred dollar bill as a 'Frisco stinker. I've seen a heap of boys like you, Abe.
"Nothin', only you're a white-livered stinker, an' I'm jest a-spoilin' foh a fight with you-all." "But I don't want to fight with you." "I'll make you," he replied, striding in; and fetching me a cuff on the ear ... then, in a far-away voice that did not seem myself, I heard myself pleading to be let alone ... by this time all the other boys had crowded down about the cell to see the fun.
To those who frankly realize with open eyes that the student of life must occasionally encounter indelicacies upon the pleasant path of research, it may be revealed, in confidence, that they alluded to Miss Smellie as "Sniffy" when not, under extreme provocation, as "Stinker".
"With one shout and with one cry" Prout's juniors hurled themselves into the war, and through the interval between first and second lesson some fifty twelve-year-olds were embroiled on the gravel outside King's windows to a tune whose leit-motif was the word "stinker." "Hark to the minute-gun at sea!" said Stalky. They were in their study collecting books for second lesson Latin, with King.
"It's the same thing," said Dilly, with feminine disregard for legal niceties. "Same thing? Rot! Fat lot you know about it, Dilly. It's a rum thing," he added to me in a reflective bawl, "but women never can understand the rules of any game. Stinker is a bargee, but he was quite right to lam me. It was for disobedience; and disobedience is cheek; and no master worth his salt will stand cheek.
You come out of the dust and the stench of melinite, not knowing where you were, hardly knowing whether you were hit only knowing that the next was rushing on its way. No eyes to see it, no limbs to escape, no bulwark to protect, no army to avenge. You squirm between iron fingers. Nothing to do but endure. LADYSMITH, Dec. 6. "There goes that stinker on Gun Hill," said the captain.
The young fellow was so glad to see Jurgis that he almost hugged him. "By God, if it isn't 'the Stinker'!" he cried. "And what is it have you been through a sausage machine?" "No," said Jurgis, "but I've been in a railroad wreck and a fight."
"I didn't quite tumble to his meaning at first, because I had only got as far as G. RUB, and then I saw that the whole thing as it stood spelled 'GRUB. Lord, how the swine laughed! He told the form all about it, and of course they all laughed too, the sniggering, grovelling sweeps! "Then Stinker said: 'A happy thought has just occurred to me.
Nobody said a blessed thing that any one mightn't have said." Lawrence thought heavily for a moment or two, and then he brought out "Carfax was a stinker a rotten fellow. That's granted, but there was more in it than just Carfax. Why, any one could give him a knock on the chin any day and there's no loss, but to have a feller killed in Sannet Wood where all those old Druids "
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