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Well, I joined the North Bungays, and was fairly launched into the world.
To the banks of the Red River and to the east of Lake Winnipeg had come many of the Chippewas. They were known on the Red River as Sauteurs, or Saulteaux, or Bungays, because they had come to the West from Sault Ste. Marie, thinking nothing of the hundreds of miles of travel along the streams. They were sometimes considered to be the gypsies of the Red men.
"No," said Mr. Dubobwig. "Mr. Stubbs is the victim of a FATAL ATTACHMENT." I was a free man when I went out of the Court; but I was a beggar I, Captain Stubbs, of the bold North Bungays, did not know where I could get a bed, or a dinner. As I was marching sadly down Portugal Street, I felt a hand on my shoulder and a rough voice which I knew well. "Vell, Mr. Stobbs, have I not kept my promise?
Depend upon this, as an infallible maxim to guide you through life: IT'S AS EASY TO GET A RICH WIFE AS A POOR ONE; the same bait that will hook a fly will hook a salmon. Dobble's reputation for courage was not increased by the butcher's-dog adventure; but mine stood very high: little Stubbs was voted the boldest chap of all the bold North Bungays.
It was carried round by that rogue of a buttony page in the evening; and he walked to Brobdingnag Gardens, and in the Park afterwards, with a young lady who is kitchen-maid at 27, and who is not more than fourteen years older than little Buttons. "These people are ruining themselves," said Mrs. John to her husband. "Rosa says she has asked the Bungays." "Bungays indeed!
Grey was there, having come back from his eastern mission, whose unfortunate abandonment of his seat at Silverbridge had caused so many troubles, and Mrs. Grey, who in days now long passed had been almost as necessary to Lady Glencora as was now her later friend Mrs. Finn, and the Cantrips, and for a short time the St. Bungays. But Lady Rosina De Courcy on this occasion was not present.
Here you fill in with pastoral similes. They struck the maid adored by Skepsey. And that was the blow which slew them! Our little man drove into the press with a pair of fists able to do their work. A valiant skiff upon a sea of enemies, he was having it on the nob, and suddenly the Demerara lightened. It flailed to thresh. Enough to say, brains would have come. The Bungays made a show of fight.
"Rowdys 2, Bungays 3, ourselves and mamma 3, 2 Sawyers," calculated little Rosa. "General Gulpin," Rosa continued, "eats a great deal, and is very stupid, but he looks well at table with his star and ribbon. Let us put HIM down!" and she noted down "Sir Thomas and Lady Gulpin, 2. Lord Castlemouldy, 1." "You will make your party abominably genteel and stupid," groaned Timmins.
I never once alluded to it in any way, and have since never spoken a single word to any man in the North Bungays. See, now, what life is! I have had ill-luck on ill-luck from that day to this.
Here you fill in with pastoral similes. They struck the maid adored by Skepsey. And that was the blow which slew them! Our little man drove into the press with a pair of fists able to do their work. A valiant skiff upon a sea of enemies, he was having it on the nob, and suddenly the Demerara lightened. It flailed to thresh. Enough. to say, brains would have come. The Bungays made a show of fight.
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