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Then I bared my ankle also, and showed the place in my eye where the guerilla had stabbed me. 'He can take his gruel, said the Bustler. 'What a glutton he'd have made for the middle-weights, remarked the trainer; 'with six months' coaching he'd astonish the fancy. It's a pity he's got to go back to prison. I did not like that last remark at all. I buttoned up my coat and rose from the bed.
He is a great bustler in reformation, which is always most proper to his talent, especially if it be tumultuous; for pockets are nowhere so easily and safely picked as in jostling crowds. And as change and alterations are most agreeable to those who are tied to nothing, he appears more zealous and violent for the cause than such as are retarded by conscience or consideration.
'Come what may, I cried, 'you shall be spoiled for Wednesday. The fellow growled out an oath, and would have sprung at me, but the other flung his arms round him and pinned him to the chair. 'Not if I know it, Bustler, he screamed. 'None of your games while I am by. Get away out of this, Frenchy. We only want to see your back. Run away, run away, or he'll get loose!
I have also, as I may tell you some day, fought the box-fight with the Bustler, of Bristol. And I say to you that this sport is a wonderful thing full of interest as well as madness. The farther we went the faster galloped my horse, and soon there were but three men as near the dogs as I was. All thought of fear of discovery had vanished.
I know who you are. You're a runaway Frenchy, from the prison yonder, as anyone could tell with half an eye. But you don't know who I am, else you wouldn't try such a plant as that. Why, man, I'm the Bristol Bustler, nine stone champion, and them's my training quarters down yonder.
I never saw you look so lovely, the new bishop has improved your appearance amazingly. "'Who? said the mother, with an hysterical scream; 'what do you mean? "'The new bustler, ma. "'Oh, said she, quite relieved, 'oh, do you think so? "'But what did you want of me, ma? "'To fasten my gown, dear, there is a hook come undone. "'Coming, she said, in a loud voice.
For this Englishman is a terrible bustler and horrible coil-keeper. We will see who will be conqueror, for he never met with his match before. Thus all being assembled, Thaumast stayed for them, and then, when Pantagruel and Panurge came into the hall, all the schoolboys, professors of arts, senior sophisters, and bachelors began to clap their hands, as their scurvy custom is.
'Besides, how am I to put the Bustler into the ring on Wednesday if he's jugged by the beak for aidin' and abettin' a prisoner of war? I've got to look after the Bustler, and I take no risks. This, then, was the end of all my struggles and strivings. I was to be led back again like a poor silly sheep who has broken through the hurdles.
"Did you never hear the 'Wrens' duet'? That is what they are singing now. Though wife is such a bustler, 'Tis I that am the hustler, For I work when there's nothing to do! "And I don't care to talk, And I daren't take a walk, For Jenny's such a jealous, j-e-a-l-o-u-s She! The foolish, lazy men Think they work if they sing all day.
I kick you on the knee. It is child's play. But if you will give me a sword, and take another one, I will show you how we fight over the water. They both stared at me in their solid, English way. 'Well, I'm glad you're not dead, mounseer, said the elder one at last. 'There wasn't much sign of life in you when the Bustler and me carried you down.
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