Billy Bunter's Benefit By Frank Richards - Friardale
Billy Bunter's Benefit By Frank Richards - Friardale
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<strong>Billy</strong> Bunter’s <strong>Benefit</strong><br />
<strong>By</strong> <strong>Frank</strong> <strong>Richards</strong><br />
we’ll make sure first, you chump!”<br />
“Look here, you let my jacket alone—stop grabbing at me—I tell you—will<br />
you let my jacket alone?—look here—Beast!”<br />
Peter Todd jerked out the lining of the jacket pocket. The next moment<br />
he jumped.<br />
There was no hole in that pocket. But there was some thing else. It was a<br />
large packet of butterscotch—a remnant of <strong>Billy</strong> Bunter’s extensive<br />
purchases at the Courtfield bun- shop. Peter Todd gazed at the intact<br />
lining. He gazed at the packet of butterscotch. Then he gazed at Bunter.<br />
His gaze grew more and more expressive.<br />
He did not speak. With his left hand, he grasped Bunter’s fat neck. With<br />
his right, he jammed the packet of butterscotch down Bunter’s back.<br />
Then he tapped the fattest head at Greyfriars on the study table. It was<br />
quite a hard tap.<br />
“Yarooh!” roared Bunter.<br />
Peter strolled out of the study. <strong>Billy</strong> Bunter was left rubbing a fat head<br />
with one hand, and trying to extract a packet of butterscotch from his<br />
podgy back with the other. And it was borne in on his fat mind that there<br />
was no assistance to be expected from Peter in solving his financial<br />
problems.<br />
CHAPTER XVII<br />
UP TO WHARTON!<br />
“IT’S up to you, Wharton.”<br />
“To me?” repeated the captain of the Remove.<br />
“You!” said Wibley.<br />
He spoke decidedly.<br />
There was a meeting in No. 1 Study. The principal members of the Remove<br />
Dramatic Society were gathered in consultation. The subject under<br />
discussion was finance.<br />
Like many amateur dramatic societies, the R.D.S. found some difficulties<br />
in that direction. The subscription was a rather low one, suited to the<br />
pecuniary circumstances of Lower-Fourth fellows. And some members<br />
were late with their subscriptions. Some were very late. Some indeed<br />
proffered ingenious excuses and explanations instead of subscriptions.<br />
Others, more wealthy, would make extra contributions—but these were<br />
few.<br />
Since William Wibley had become President and general inspiring genius<br />
of the R.D.S., expenses had increased. Wibley liked to do things well. He<br />
did not believe in spoiling a ship for a ha’porth of tar. If a thing was<br />
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