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"Upon this hint he spake" a few days afterwards, and in due time they were married. But enough of that our essay treats of war, not love. In his "first field," Captain Muggs displayed his extraordinary knowledge of tactics. He it was who first discovered the method of "dressing" a line, by backing it up against a curbstone.
The boy replied that he had for the last two years been working for Mr. Muggs, the ironmonger felt sure that Mr. Muggs would give him a good character. "Well, go and ask Mr. Muggs to come across and speak to me, I will wait here," directed the would-be employer. Five minutes went by ten minutes. No Mr. Muggs appeared. Later in the afternoon the farmer met the boy again. "Mr.
Contrast these children with the children of Mr Deputy Stubbs of the ward of Farringdon Within, or common Councillor Muggs of Bassishaw; they really do not look like animals of the same species.
Then they eat, these young, Stubbses and Muggses, how they do eat! then they are dressed, how they are dressed! five different tartans, four colours in velvet, seven sorts of ribbons, and a woolpack of fleecy hosiery, as if there wasn't another Stubbs or Muggs in existence; then how they annoy and infest, with bad manners and noise, the deputies and common-councilmen who visit at Stubbses and Muggses; how the maids "drat them" all day long, and how Mrs Stubbs and Mrs Muggs hate Mr Sucklethumb, the butterman, because he never "notices the child."
"And Muggs, about eleven o'clock, sneaking up through the halls, dressed like the messenger boy again. I saw him when I peeked out of the door to see who it was tiptoeing. Getaway, for God's sake " He closed over her wrist then, his face extremely pointed.
His venerable schoolmistress, who has outlived her illustrious pupil, and is now supported by the town whose founders were formed by her care, and who laid the foundation of our hero's greatness by the powerful application of birch at the seat of learning, assured us, in a recent interview, that the military propensities of Muggs were developed at an early age.
"Those fake messenger boys that get themselves hired and, instead of delivering the bonds from one office to another disappear with them. Muggs isn't wearing that messenger's uniform for nothing. You and Monkey are working with him under cover on something. You can't pass a cop any more without tightening up. I can feel it when I have your arm.
Seth Muggs, intent upon keeping pace with Andy on his right, and not permitting him to get out of sight, quite neglected to be equally cautious as to Jamie on his left. In this Seth was in no wise neglectful. The responsibility in each case, in order to keep the line from breaking, was to keep the neighbour nearer the brook in view. In this Jamie alone had failed.
Somewhere on a snowy page a Christmas angel wrote: "One boy saved by the spirit of a country Christmas!" "Here," repeated the Doctor, "again for Christmas." He opened the door. "Run along, now, Jim," he said kindly, "or the boys will miss you." Jim's final words were very queer. "Doctor John," he blurted, "I I'm a goin' to send poor little Muggs."
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