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The whole school's fritefully bucked up about you, and we're one up on Fenner's.... "What's Fenner's?" I said to Peter. "Oh, that's another school at Beckenham. They're stinkers. Put on no end of side because some smug of theirs won a schol' at Uppingham last term. But we beat them at footer."
"I will give you all the time you want," replied the Sniffer President. "At least, from my side. But if those stinkers start anything, you'd better believe that I will not sit doggo and let them destroy our homes." "Fair enough," said Ozma. She then followed Probisquous to the edge of the Stinkfoot Nation. "I can't take you any further," he said. "My eyes are already starting to water.
"Well, I had the notion first, hadn't I ? only " "You couldn't do it without your Uncle Stalky, could you?" "They've been calling us stinkers for a week now," said McTurk. "Oh, won't they catch it!" "Stinker! Yah! Stink-ah!" rang down the corridor. "And she's there," said Stalky, a hand on either boy's shoulder. "She is there, gettin' ready to surprise 'em.
They're clever, oh, they'm clever, but they'm not too clever for old Richards! 'Twas on the born tip o' my tongue to tell, tu, but... he said us niver washed, he did. Let his dom boys call us 'stinkers, he did. Sarve un dom well raight, I say!" Richards spat on a fresh boot and fell to his work, chuckling.
In Common-room at lunch King discoursed acridly to Prout of boys with prurient minds, who perverted their few and baleful talents to sap discipline and corrupt their equals, to deal in foul imagery and destroy reverence. "But you didn't seem to consider this when your house called us ah stinkers.
Why should his house be called "Stinkers"? Truly, it was a small thing, but he had been trained to believe that straws show which way the wind blows, and that there is no smoke without fire. He approached King in Common-room with a sense of injustice, but King was pleased to be full of airy persiflage that tide, and brilliantly danced dialectical rings round Prout.
"An' an' they've been calling us 'stinkers' all this week. Why, Harland minor says they simply can't sleep in his dormitory for the stink. Come on!"
The Slabberts was striking a match of the fizzling, spluttering, Swedish-made non-safety kind, known to W. Keyse and his circle by the familiar abbreviation of "stinkers." "Voor den donder! Have I not told you I shall be there with him after to-night!" Her womanly tenderness quickened at the hint of coming separation.
So they started arguing about the point, Bloom saying he wouldn't and he couldn't and excuse him no offence and all to that and then he said well he'd just take a cigar. Gob, he's a prudent member and no mistake. Give us one of your prime stinkers, Terry, says Joe. And Alf was telling us there was one chap sent in a mourning card with a black border round it.
"This was the the open cesspit that dared to call us 'stinkers. And now and now, it tries to shelter itself behind a dead rat. You annoy me, Rattray. You disgust me! You irritate me unspeakably! Thank Heaven, I am a man of equable temper " "Or I should scarcely be able to contain myself before your mocking visage." "Cave!" in an undertone. Beetle had spied King sailing down the corridor.
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