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  • It would make Brown, in Stalky's language, "a Jelly-bellied Flag-flapper".

    Rudyard Kipling answers Gordon Brown 2006

  • So we tore upstairs and put on our slippers and socks over them, and we got the high-backed chair out of the girls 'bedroom, and the others held it steady while Oswald agilitively mounted upon its high back and opened the trap-door and got up into the place between the roof and the ceiling (the boys in "Stalky & Co." found this out by accident, and they were surprised and pleased, but we have known all about it ever since we can remember).

    New Treasure Seekers Edith 1925

  • And a fluttering, chirping host of men, little men and unseeing men, have heaped him over with the uncut leaves of "Kim," wrapped him in "Stalky & Co." for winding sheet, and for headstone reared his unconventional lines, "The

    These Bones shall Rise Again - Essay by Jack London 2010

  • 'That's a name though,' said Alice, 'and you got it out of "Stalky", too.

    The Wouldbegoods 1891

  • The tale attracted the attention of Walt Disney, who nicknamed the lanky young Dahl "Stalky."

    A Peach of a Life, With Pitfalls William Georgiades 2010

  • "This post brought to you by Stalky "OMG I can't believe you can get that much information about me" McStalkerson".

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  • This post brought to you by Stalky "OMG I can't believe you can get that much information about me" McStalkerson.

    Archive 2009-01-01 StyleyGeek 2009

  • This post brought to you by Stalky "OMG I can't believe you can get that much information about me" McStalkerson.

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  • One of his Stalky & Co school stories deals with the boys 'outrage when a visiting speaker browbeats them about mysteries that an upright fellow just does not talk about:

    Rudyard Kipling answers Gordon Brown 2006

  • I wanted to be very intelligent and get away with things, just like Stalky.

    I'm in the Change the Question Group ricklibrarian 2007

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