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Billy Bunter’s Benefit By Frank Richards “Scrag him!” said Bob Cherry. “The scragfulness is the proper caper!” “Boot him!” “Keep off, you beasts!” roared Bunter, “I tell you If never heard a word, and I don’t know anything about Wharton standing out of the Old Boy’s Prize. I was simply picking up a letter I’d dropped when that beast Smithy—.” “As well as a pin?” asked Bob. “I—I mean a pip-pip-pin—I mean I was tying up my letter—that is, my shoe-lace, and if you fellows think for a moment that I’d listen at a keyhole, I can only say—yarooooooh!” Billy Bunter had rolled into No. 1 Study under the propulsion of one boot. He rolled out again under the propulsion of five—all vigorously applied. He roared as he rolled. The door of that study banged after him, and Harry Wharton and Co. resumed the discussion of ways and means. A breathless fat Owl tottered into No. 7 Study, uttering a series of anguished squeaks. Peter Todd, who was working at the table, gave him a glare. Toddy was deep in his paper for the Old Boy’s Prize, and he seemed to have no use for Bunter’s musical effects. “What’s the row, you fat ass?” he barked. “Ow! wow! I’ve been kicked,” gasped Bunter. “Good!” said Peter. “Beast! Making out that a chap was listening at a keyhole, because a chap stooped to pick up a bullseye outside their door—.” “So they kicked you for that, did they?” asked Peter. “Ow! wow! Yes! wow! And—.” “Jolly good idea! I’ll do the same,” said Peter, laying down his pen and rising from the table. “Why, you beast—look here—keep off—oh, crikey! Wow!” Billy Bunter departed from No. 7 Study as hastily as he had departed from No. 1. Peter had time to get in only one, but it was a good one, and the fat Owl roared as he departed. “Ow! wow! ow! wow!” faded away down the passage. On the study landing, Billy Bunter rubbed almost innumerable aching spots, and it was borne in upon his fat mind, not for the first time, that the way of the eavesdropper was hard! CHAPTER XXV BUNTER KNOWS HOW! Page 96 of 161
Billy Bunter’s Benefit By Frank Richards “HARRY, old chap—.” “Oh, scat!” “Hold on a minute, dear old fellow.” “Oh, bother.” After class, the Famous Five were heading for the nets. They really had no time to waste on Billy Bunter, especially as Wibley was rounding them up again at six for another rehearsal However, with a fat paw clutching his sleeve, the captain of the Remove held on. “Cut it short,” he said. “You might give a chap a minute, when he’s in an awful hole,” said Bunter. “I haven’t paid Parker yet.” “We’ve heard that one,” remarked Bob Cherry. “I’m two pounds fifteen shillings short,” said Bunter. “It’s growing!” remarked Frank Nugent. “I wonder how much Parker will see of his seven guineas, at this rate.” “The wonderfulness is terrific,” chuckled Hurree Jamset Ram Singh. “Well, I was expecting a postal-order, you know—” “Help!” “But it hasn’t come,” said Bunter. “And—and I’ve thought of something else. I’m going in for the Old Boy’s Latin Prize.” “Oh, my hat!” “Ha, ha, ha!” “I say, you fellows, I wish you wouldn’t cackle every time a fellow opens his mouth,” said Bunter, irritably. “Now Wharton’s out of it, it will be all right, if Wharton is willing to do the decent thing, and help.” “Eh? How’s that?” asked Harry, staring. “You couldn’t begin to do that Latin paper, you fat ass: and if you could, you’d be too jolly lazy. I can see you swotting over a Latin paper!” “I’m not going to swot, of course,” said Bunter. “But you’re out of it now, ain’t you?” “Bunter heard that, when he wasn’t listening at the keyhole this morning,” remarked Bob Cherry, and the juniors chuckled. “Yes, I’m out of it, ass,” said Harry. “But any fellow who’s in could walk all over you, especially Linley.” “But now you’re out of it, you don’t want your Latin paper,” explained Bunter. “Well, as you won’t want it, you can give it to me—.” “Wha-a-t?” “It would be a waste to chuck it away, wouldn’t it?” said Bunter, blinking at the astonished captain of the Remove. “You just let me have it, see, and I’ll go in for the cash prize, and—and pay Parker, see?” “Oh, crumbs!” Page 97 of 161
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