"I had forgotten the old duffer," he smiled back at me.

The dingoes would work havoc among them in no time, and what they left the duffers would soon dispose of.

" "That's a might of money to pay the old duffer for one night's work, Mark," muttered Jim.

To be "sech a duffer" as to return that money, when by means of a little strategy he might have kept it, made him feel both humiliated and indignant.

As it was, I left school entirely innocent, very solitary, very modest, thinking myself a complete duffer, and everyone else a beast.