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Updated: May 3, 2025
The men and boys used to laugh, and call me General, and Lord Cornwallis, and all sorts of nicknames; and old Stiffelkind made a thousand new ones for me. One day I can recollect one miserable day, as I was polishing on the trees a pair of boots of Mr. Stiffelkind's manufacture the old gentleman came into the shop, with a lady on his arm. "Vere is Gaptain Stobbs?" said he.
"Oh, no, it vas not my dog." "Why, you said it was your dog." "Oh, no, gaptain, I " "It was a white dog, wasn't it, with his tail docked, and one ear gone, and " "Dot's him, dot's him! der fery dog. Wy, py Chorge, dot dog he would eat baint yoost de same like " "Well, never mind that, now 'vast heaving I never saw such a man. You start him on that dog and he'll dispute a year.
"Now, old fellow," I said, "we'll call bygones bygones, and maybe you'll let us see a little more of you than we've been doing lately." "You mean Rosalie, of gourse," he said, snapping the words like a mad dog. "Yes, Rosalie," I said. "Gaptain Branscombe," he said, his face convulsed with passion, "that gossumate liar and hybocrite has made such a thing impossible.
"No, I know you will never you are too great a goward ha! ha! though dis is a red goat, and a place where you must give some HARD KNOCKS too ha! ha! do you gomprehend? and you shall be a general instead of a gaptain ha! ha!" "A general in a red coat, Mr. Stiffelkind?" "Yes, a GENERAL BOSTMAN! ha! ha!
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