Billy Bunter's Benefit By Frank Richards - Friardale

Billy Bunter’s Benefit
By Frank Richards
to Bunter if somebody did not see him through. So it was settled, and
Bunter’s Benefit was approved nem. con.
After which the meeting in No. 1 Study broke up.
That evening, a notice appeared on the door of the Rag which was read
with great interest by Remove fellows and fellows in other forms. Coker
of the Fifth came along to read it, with a smile on his rugged visage—one
of those sardonic smiles.
BUNTER’S BENEFIT!
On Wednesday Afternoon smiles.
At 3 o’clock precisely
THE REMOVE DRAMATIC SOCIETY
present
“HAMLET”
By W. Shakespeare
Tickets: 1/- at doors
Reserved: 2/6 to £1 1/- —apply No, 1 Study.
Coker of the Fifth grinned sardonically, having his own ideas about what
was going to happen when the Remove
Dramatic Society presented “Hamlet” by W. Shakespeare.
Other fellows grinned, apparently amused by the list of prices for
tickets.
Billy Bunter’s grin was the widest of all.
At last—at long last—the fat Owl saw the solution of his financial
problem. And Billy Bunter’s reaction to the announcement of his Benefit
took the form of rolling off immediately to the tuck-shop, there to
expend, to the last sixpence, what still remained of the seven guineas!
After which it was a sticky and stony Bunter.
CHAPTER XXXVI
BUNTER ALL OVER
“I SAY, you fellows.”
Billy Bunter was unheeded. -
They were busy, in No. 1 Study, after class on Tuesday. The Famous Five
sat at the receipt of custom, as it were.
Clink! clink!
That musical sound told of coins dropping into a box, It was a very
pleasant sound to the fat ears of Billy Bunter, as he blinked into the
study.
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