Biffer

You see the Biffer was a new boy, and, for another thing, he wore a leather strap round his wrist.

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Wun day I walked in teh dore an foun teh Biffer standin on her hind legs on toppa teh skritchin post, skritchin teh top of teh chare!

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At night they were well content, after a late dinner, to crouch around the glowing brazier and talk, while Biffer surreptiously was wont to fry the bacon he had commandeered.

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Who was the Biffer -- a new boy at that -- to call anyone a German?

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He hoped they wouldn't make the Biffer fight him, not that he was afraid of the Biffer, but because it would be so hard to keep himself from hitting back, and that he had decided not to do.

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But there was no sting in the blows this time; all the zest seemed to have gone out of the affair; and, but for the whack the Biffer gave,

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It was Jimmy who had nick-named him the Biffer, and from that time the Biffer had sought

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On his very first day at school the Biffer had volunteered the information that he once gave a boy such a biff on the nose that he had sprained his wrist, and that ever since he had worn a wrist strap, lest it should happen again.

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Instinctively a ring was formed and the Biffer found himself in the middle of it.

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"Perhaps he _is_ a German," said the Biffer, and waited for the general laugh to follow his sally.

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