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Updated: June 5, 2025
"You were in a rough-and-tumble down the Chinese Bund, and we got you away. Play up to that." "All right. But, gee! I won't be able to go with you." "If we have any luck, I'll see you get a share." "That's white. You were always a white man, Dick. I feel like a skunk. I knew I couldn't put it over, with the three of you at my elbow. What the devil got into me?" "Any funds?"
People who go into the city are carried in chairs, or drop down the river in their luxurious covered boats, but for exercise they mostly walk on the bund, and play croquet or lawn tennis. In this glorious weather the island is very charming. It is possible to spend the whole year here, as the tidal breezes modify the moist heat of summer; but the English children look pale and languid even now.
If there be such a one, and only one, it will insist on being master of the joint deliberations; if there be two, they will be irresistible when they agree; and whenever they differ, every thing will be decided by a struggle for ascendancy between the rivals. This cause is alone enough to reduce the German Bund to almost a nullity, independently of its wretched internal constitution.
A falling out among thieves, and one had tried to betray his confederates, paying grimly for it. Pearls! He trotted down to the door and peered into the night, but he could see nothing. He wished now that he had purchased those window curtains such as the white merchants used over on the Bund.
Strange cries arose, the bumping of sampans, the mournful caterwauling of a stringed instrument. "The native town's a bit above," he continued. "We herd together here on the edge. No concession, no bund, nothing." Their sampan grounded softly in malodorous ooze. Each mounting the bare shoulders of a coolie, the two Europeans rode precariously to shore.
Off the frontage or bund is frequently moored a line of hulks connected with the shore by pontoons, and which in their day were probably the finest ocean liners afloat, but now, worn out and dismantled, serve as floating warehouses, alongside which steamers come to discharge and load cargo.
No Southern bund was ever formed, and when the Franco-German War broke out in 1870 Napoleon saw the shipwreck of his abortive devices in the spectacle of the troops of Bavaria and Wuertemberg marching on the Rhine in line with the battalions of Prussia.
The town extends along the shore, which is level, but is backed by a half-moon of low, well-wooded hills, among which are the private dwellings of the foreign residents, built after the European style, on the location known as the Bluff. The two principal hotels, the club-houses, and some consular business residences, are located on the water-front, a wide thoroughfare known as the Bund.
'What for that? 'He's deid. 'Are ye sure? 'Ay, ower sure ower sure, laddie. 'Weel, I dinna believe 't. 'What for that? ''Cause I winna believe 't. I'm no bund to believe 't, am I? 'What's the gude o' that? What for no believe 't? Dr. Anderson's sent hame word o' 't to John Lammie. Och hone! och hone! 'I tell ye I winna believe 't, grannie, 'cep' God himsel' tells me.
Most of these dealt with problems people faced while gardening at home. Mr Borges in his reply offered practical solutions which he himself had tried out successfully. For example, to the query, "Why does a papaya plant die after flowering?" he suggested building a bund round the base of the plant because water collecting there rots the papaya base stem.
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