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‘All right. You two play it again,’ said Beetle, who, in a gray skirt and a wig of chestnut sausage-curls, set slantwise above a pair of spectacles mended with an old boot-lace, represented the Widow Twankey. He waved one leg in time to the hammered refrain, and the banjos grew louder. |
This is from “Slaves of the Lamp Part 1” collected in Stalky & Co. (1899) and later included in The Complete Stalky & Co. (1929) This was the first ‘Stalky’ story to be published, and possibly the first to be written. The rival house-master Mr. King is just about to enter and put a halt to their pantomime ambitions, after which the ‘Slaves of the Lamp’ (mainly through Stalky) plan and exact their revenge. |
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