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terrific bellows, and from time to time the ghastly flare of lightning illuminated the entire neighbourhood. The tempest howled like a lost dog th

and such was the fury of the gale that only a paucity of the ship's passengers remained perpendicular, and Mr Chunder Bindabun B

ack Water, to be snipped off in the flower of his adolescence,

oard, and Honble Mr Commissioner Copsey, who was returning on leav

ioner in paternal tones. "Why are you kicking

"I am in lively expectation that waters w

. "This is only the moiety of a gale,

ishing all his fellow-passengers that they were not to give way to panic, seeing that Death was the common lot of all, and, though everyone must die once, it

r setting his feet on British territory, Mr Bhosh became a

of Calcutta University, I am not, of course, proficient in the customs and etiquettes of any rival seminaries, and should

the good graces of his fellow college boys, and his principal friend and fidus Achates was a young high-spirited ari

bob to wallow in filthy lucre, Mr Bhosh gave frequent entertainments to his friends, who wer

us, and Mr Bhosh's Moolovee sent for him and severely reprimanded him for neglecting to stud

feet of his senile tutor, and promising that, if only he wa

a most exemplary bookworm, burning his midnight candle at bo

er his learned tomes, who should arrive but a deputation of prominent Cambridge boatmen and athletics, t

flashing oar. But the authorities had beheld him propelling a punt boat with marvellous dexterity by dint of a paddle, a

o return the polite negative. Gladly I would help you to inflict crushing defeat upon our presumptuous foe, but 'I see a hand you cannot see that beckons me away; I hear a voice you cannot hear that wheezes "Not to-day!"' In other words,

dmiring the firmness and fortitude which a mere Native student had nilled an invi

e famous inter-collegiate race of that year from Hammersmith to Putney