In fact, we know scarcely nothin' about smut an' its cure, if there is any.

Experience shows that a fall stubble crop is less liable to smut infection than a crop following summer fallow.

Another has endeared himself to a long succession of acquaintances by sitting among them with his wig reversed; another by contriving to smut the nose of any stranger who was to be initiated in the club; another by purring like a cat, and then pretending to be frighted; and another by yelping like a hound, and calling to the drawers to drive out the dog[k].